Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Samuel Butler

11.

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.

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

14.

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

15.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

16.

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

17.

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

Allen, James

18.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

19.

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

20.

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

Landesberg, Steve

21.

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

22.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

23.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

24.

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

Cayce, Edgar

25.

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.

26.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

27.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

28.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

29.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

30.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Stephen, Leslie

32.

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

Thomas Jefferson

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

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

37.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

38.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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