Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Blum, Leon

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.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Samuel Butler

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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.

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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

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

James, William

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bible

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Twain, Mark

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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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

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Euripides