Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Ruskin, John

2.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

Samuel Butler

6.

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

Kant, Immanuel

7.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

8.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

9.

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.

10.

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

Thomas Jefferson

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Allen, James

17.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

20.

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

Mamet, David

21.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

22.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Chilo

27.

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

28.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

James, William

31.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

32.

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

33.

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

Thomas Sowell

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Needham, Richard J.

37.

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

38.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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