Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Allen, James

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.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

11.

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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Lyly, John

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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.

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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

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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

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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

22.

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

23.

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.

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

Mamet, David

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Bible

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Cayce, Edgar

35.

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

Burns, George

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob