Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

Fielding, Henry

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

James, William

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.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

7.

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

Samuel Butler

8.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

9.

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

Thomas Jefferson

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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.

12.

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

Kin Hubbard

13.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Blum, Leon

15.

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

Pamela Ribon

16.

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

Landesberg, Steve

17.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Cayce, Edgar

21.

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

Burns, George

22.

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

Chilo

23.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

24.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

25.

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

Mamet, David

26.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

27.

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

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.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

30.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

31.

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

32.

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

Thomas Sowell

33.

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

Needham, Richard J.

34.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

35.

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

Stephen, Leslie

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

38.

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

Euripides

39.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

40.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

41.

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

42.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

43.

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

44.

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

Ruskin, John

45.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy