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

1.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

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.

4.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

5.

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.

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

10.

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

Kin Hubbard

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Stephen, Leslie

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

15.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

16.

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

Cayce, Edgar

17.

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

18.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

23.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

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

25.

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

Samuel Butler

26.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

27.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

James, William

30.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

31.

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

Otway, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

35.

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

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Allen, James

38.

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

Lyly, John

39.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.