Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Thomas Sowell

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Twain, Mark

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Mamet, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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 right way to do something wrong.

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

Chilo

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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

Euripides

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Allen, James

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

Bible

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

35.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Lyly, John

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

Blum, Leon

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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