Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Proverb, Scottish

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.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

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

Bible

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

10.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

11.

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

Chilo

12.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

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

16.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

17.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

18.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Kant, Immanuel

20.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Stephen, Leslie

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

28.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Allen, James

33.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

34.

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

35.

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

Landesberg, Steve

36.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

37.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Samuel Butler

40.

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

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.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Thomas Jefferson

47.

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

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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

49.

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

Thomas Sowell