Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Chilo

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

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

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.

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

Bible

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

Lyly, John

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Landesberg, Steve

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thomas Sowell

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Allen, James

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

48.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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