Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

2.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

3.

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

Stephen, Leslie

4.

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

Blum, Leon

5.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

6.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

7.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

8.

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

9.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

Kant, Immanuel

11.

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

Thomas Sowell

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

14.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Otway, Thomas

18.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

James, William

22.

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.

23.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

24.

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.

25.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

26.

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

Cayce, Edgar

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

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.

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

31.

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.

32.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

33.

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

Burns, George

34.

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

35.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Samuel Butler

37.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

38.

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

39.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Lyly, John

42.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

43.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

45.

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

46.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

49.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.