Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Benson, Edward Frederic

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

There is no right way to do something wrong.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Butler

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

10.

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

Kant, Immanuel

11.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

13.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

18.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

19.

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

Lyly, John

20.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Kin Hubbard

23.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

24.

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

25.

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

Otway, Thomas

26.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

27.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

28.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

29.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

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

31.

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

Blum, Leon

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Burns, George

39.

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

40.

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

Landesberg, Steve

41.

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

42.

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

Pamela Ribon

43.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

45.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

49.

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

50.

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