Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

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

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

Euripides

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Kin Hubbard

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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.

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 is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Sam Rayburn

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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.

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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

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

19.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Landesberg, Steve

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Lyly, John

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Thomas Sowell

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

James, William

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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