Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Cayce, Edgar

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

5.

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

Lyly, John

6.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

7.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

8.

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

Thomas Sowell

9.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

10.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

11.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

12.

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

Landesberg, Steve

13.

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

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14.

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

Needham, Richard J.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Pamela Ribon

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

James, William

20.

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

21.

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

Chilo

22.

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

Kin Hubbard

23.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

24.

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

Allen, James

25.

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

26.

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

Otway, Thomas

27.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

28.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

31.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

38.

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

Samuel Butler

39.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

44.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

45.

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