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

1.

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

2.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

3.

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

Bible

4.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

8.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

11.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

16.

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

Samuel Butler

17.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

18.

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

Burns, George

19.

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

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.

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

Landesberg, Steve

22.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

23.

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

Pamela Ribon

24.

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

25.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Lyly, John

28.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

29.

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

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

35.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

36.

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

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Allen, James

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

Chilo

44.

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

Otway, Thomas

45.

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

Stephen, Leslie

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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