Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Mamet, David

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Blum, Leon

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

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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.

11.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Otway, Thomas

15.

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

Burns, George

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Samuel Butler

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Pamela Ribon

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Stephen, Leslie

30.

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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

34.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Euripides

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

Thomas Sowell

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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

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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 as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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

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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark