Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

- Arendt, Leah

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Proverb, Scottish

2.

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

3.

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

Lyly, John

4.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Burns, George

11.

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

Pamela Ribon

12.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

Allen, James

16.

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

Needham, Richard J.

17.

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

Landesberg, Steve

18.

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

19.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

25.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

26.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

27.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

28.

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.

29.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Samuel Butler

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

James, William

37.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

38.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

39.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

43.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

49.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Kant, Immanuel