Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Blum, Leon

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Allen, James

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

Mamet, David

10.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Samuel Butler

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

18.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

19.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Thomas Sowell

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

23.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

24.

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

25.

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.

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

30.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

31.

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

Cayce, Edgar

32.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

36.

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

37.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

38.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

39.

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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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

41.

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.

42.

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 as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

45.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Burns, George