Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Mamet, David

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Samuel Butler

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Twain, Mark

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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

Lyly, John

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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

18.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

23.

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

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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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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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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.

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

Allen, James

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

Fielding, Henry

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.