Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Graham, Billy

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Ruskin, John

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

Chilo

10.

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

Kin Hubbard

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Allen, James

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Euripides

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

Pamela Ribon

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

James, William

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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

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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.

25.

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

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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Bible

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Lyly, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson