Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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.

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Lyly, 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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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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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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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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