Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

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

Chilo

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Samuel Butler

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sam Rayburn

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Bible

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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.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Allen, James

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Burns, George

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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

Lyly, John

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter