Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Honesty

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Lyly, John

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Blum, Leon

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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti