Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Sam Rayburn

2.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

3.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

4.

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.

5.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

6.

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.

7.

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

Burns, George

8.

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

9.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

10.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Allen, James

14.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

15.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

16.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

18.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

19.

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.

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

28.

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

29.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

32.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Samuel Butler

34.

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

Thomas Sowell

35.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

38.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

39.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

40.

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

Needham, Richard J.

41.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

42.

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

43.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Scottish

46.

Be prepared and be honest.