Motivational Quotes

Honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Browne, Merry

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Kant, Immanuel

2.

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

Kin Hubbard

3.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

4.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

5.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

8.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

9.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

10.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

11.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

13.

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.

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Otway, Thomas

16.

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

Ruskin, John

17.

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

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Blum, Leon

20.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

21.

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

Stephen, Leslie

22.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

23.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

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.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

28.

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

29.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

30.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

35.

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

Samuel Butler

36.

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

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

39.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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.

42.

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

Cayce, Edgar

43.

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

James, William

44.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Needham, Richard J.

48.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

49.

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

50.

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

Mamet, David