Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

2.

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

Euripides

3.

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

4.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

5.

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

Kin Hubbard

6.

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

7.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

8.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

13.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

14.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas Jefferson

20.

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

Mamet, David

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

26.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Thomas Sowell

30.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

31.

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

32.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

33.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

34.

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

35.

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

Pamela Ribon

36.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.