Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

8.

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

James, William

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Chilo

12.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

13.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

14.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Landesberg, Steve

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

19.

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

Otway, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

26.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

27.

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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Samuel Butler

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

32.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

33.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

34.

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

Burns, George

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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.

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

Needham, Richard J.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

46.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

47.

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

Sam Rayburn

48.

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