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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
Honesty Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Honesty

1.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell

2.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides

3.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Ash, Mary Kay

4.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Needham, Richard J.

5.
An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

6.
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Proverb, Scottish

7.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare

8.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Stephen, Leslie

9.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson

10.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Freud, Sigmund

11.
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

12.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Carlyle, Thomas

13.
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.

14.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero

15.
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

16.
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

17.
There is no right way to do something wrong.

18.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Shakespeare, William

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

27.
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Landesberg, Steve

28.
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
Marden, Orison Swett

29.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Cromwell, Oliver

30.
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

31.
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon

32.
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

33.
Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilo

34.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
James, William

35.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Young, Brigham

36.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid

38.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

39.
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.

40.
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

41.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Blum, Leon

42.
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.

43.
Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

44.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Graham, Billy

45.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Fielding, Henry

46.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare

47.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler

48.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
Lyly, John

49.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

50.
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


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