Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Lyly, John

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.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Bible

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

Ash, Mary Kay

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Landesberg, Steve

13.

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

14.

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

Cayce, Edgar

15.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

17.

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

Kin Hubbard

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

25.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

32.

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

Stephen, Leslie

33.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

40.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

44.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

45.

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

Thomas Jefferson

46.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

47.

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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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

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

Fielding, Henry

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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