Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about 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.

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

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

Euripides

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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.

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

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

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Mcmahon, Ed

10.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Burns, George

14.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Bible

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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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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.

21.

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

Lyly, John

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

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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

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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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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

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Otway, Thomas

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

33.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.