Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

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

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.

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

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

10.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

11.

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

Landesberg, Steve

12.

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

Burns, George

13.

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

Chilo

14.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

15.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Mamet, David

18.

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.

19.

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

Needham, Richard J.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Allen, James

22.

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

Otway, Thomas

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Pamela Ribon

27.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

28.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Samuel Butler

31.

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

Lyly, John

32.

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

33.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

34.

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

Thomas Jefferson

35.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

36.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

37.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

38.

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

39.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

Cayce, Edgar

43.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

47.

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

48.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

49.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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