Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Kin Hubbard

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

James, William

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

15.

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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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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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.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ruskin, John

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

Chilo

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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

Otway, Thomas

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Lyly, John

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Needham, Richard J.

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Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Landesberg, Steve

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