Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Euripides

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Allen, James

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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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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Burns, George

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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.

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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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.

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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

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Needham, Richard J.