Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Thomas Sowell

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Mamet, David

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Sam Rayburn

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

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

Pamela Ribon

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Lyly, John

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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

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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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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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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

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Shakespeare, William

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Allen, James

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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, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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