Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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

James, William

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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.

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

Blum, Leon

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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 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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

18.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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.

25.

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

Ruskin, John

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Euripides

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

Pamela Ribon

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

41.

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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no right way to do something wrong.