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

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

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

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Ruskin, John

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

13.

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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

28.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

James, William

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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.

32.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Chilo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don