Motivational Quotes

Honesty

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

4.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

5.

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

6.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

7.

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

Burns, George

8.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

9.

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

10.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

11.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

Thomas Jefferson

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

20.

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

Thomas Sowell

21.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

23.

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

Allen, James

24.

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

Lyly, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John

28.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

29.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

30.

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

Sam Rayburn

31.

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.

32.

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

Chilo

33.

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

34.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

35.

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

36.

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

Mamet, David

37.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

40.

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

Needham, Richard J.

41.

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.

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Otway, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

Fielding, Henry

50.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George