Motivational Quotes

Honesty

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Euripides

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

William Shakespeare

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

14.

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

Burns, George

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

James, William

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Blum, Leon

20.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

21.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

22.

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

23.

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

Sam Rayburn

24.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

25.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

26.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

27.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

31.

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.

32.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

33.

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

Chilo

34.

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.

35.

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

Lyly, John

36.

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

Otway, Thomas

37.

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

Needham, Richard J.

38.

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

Allen, James

39.

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

40.

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

Stephen, Leslie

41.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

43.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cayce, Edgar

47.

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

48.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

49.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

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