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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Kin Hubbard

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Otway, Thomas

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Euripides

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Chilo

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Blum, Leon

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Burns, George

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Allen, James

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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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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