Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Otway, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

13.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

14.

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

15.

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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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.

18.

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

Euripides

19.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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

21.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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

Sam Rayburn

26.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

27.

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

28.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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

32.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

33.

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

34.

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

Landesberg, Steve

35.

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

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

Mamet, David

37.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Bible

40.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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.

43.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

44.

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

Lyly, John

45.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von