Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Ruskin, John

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

Kant, Immanuel

14.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

15.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

25.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Lyly, John

27.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

28.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

33.

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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

35.

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

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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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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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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.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Landesberg, Steve

41.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blum, Leon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Proverb, Scottish

50.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John