Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Blum, Leon

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Churchill, Winston

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

10.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

11.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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.

14.

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

Landesberg, Steve

15.

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

Bible

16.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

17.

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

18.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

19.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

20.

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.

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

25.

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

26.

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

Cayce, Edgar

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

29.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

30.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

31.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Pamela Ribon

36.

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.

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John

38.

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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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

40.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

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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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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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Allen, James

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

Burns, George

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