Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Samuel Butler

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Needham, Richard J.

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Thomas Sowell

14.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

17.

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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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Otway, Thomas

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

31.

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 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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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 shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Burns, George

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert