Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

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

Stephen, Leslie

4.

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

5.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

6.

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

7.

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

Mamet, David

8.

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

9.

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

Needham, Richard J.

10.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

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

Euripides

16.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Kant, Immanuel

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

23.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

24.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

25.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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.

30.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

34.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

35.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

36.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

39.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Thomas Jefferson

41.

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

Otway, Thomas

42.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

43.

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.

44.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Lyly, John

49.

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