Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Houston, Sam

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

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

12.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

13.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

14.

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

15.

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

16.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

17.

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

18.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

26.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

27.

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

Samuel Butler

28.

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

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

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

Chilo

32.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

33.

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.

34.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Bible

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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

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald