Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

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

Ash, Mary Kay

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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

Burns, George

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

William Shakespeare

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Cayce, Edgar

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Mamet, David

14.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

18.

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

Bible

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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

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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

25.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

26.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

28.

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

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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

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Shakespeare, William

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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Allen, James

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

Twain, Mark

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Chilo

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

Mcmahon, Ed