Motivational Quotes

Honesty

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Honesty

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Robbins, Tim

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

10.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Allen, James

12.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

13.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

14.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

15.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

17.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

21.

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

22.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

23.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

24.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

25.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

26.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

29.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

30.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

32.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

33.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

34.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

35.

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

36.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

37.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

38.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

39.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

40.

There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Gouthey, A. P.

41.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

42.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Churchill, Winston

44.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

45.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]