Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about 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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Euripides

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

Twain, Mark

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

11.

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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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 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

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Mamet, David

21.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ruskin, John

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

32.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

34.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

James, William

43.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.