Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

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.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Bible

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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.

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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

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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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

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

Twain, Mark

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Lyly, John

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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

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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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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.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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 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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Kin Hubbard

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.