Motivational Quotes

Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Kant, Immanuel

2.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

3.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

4.

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

5.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

6.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

7.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

9.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

11.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

17.

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.

18.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Burns, George

23.

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

24.

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

Stephen, Leslie

25.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

26.

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.

27.

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

Chilo

28.

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

29.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

30.

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

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

33.

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

Kin Hubbard

34.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

35.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

36.

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

Thomas Sowell

37.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

38.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

39.

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

Pamela Ribon

40.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

41.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

42.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

43.

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.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Sam Rayburn

49.

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

Allen, James

50.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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