Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Sam Rayburn

10.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

Kin Hubbard

12.

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.

13.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

14.

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

Thomas Jefferson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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.

20.

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

Lyly, John

21.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

22.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

29.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

30.

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

31.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Mamet, David

33.

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

Cayce, Edgar

34.

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

35.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

36.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

37.

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

38.

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