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

1.

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

2.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

3.

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

4.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

5.

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

Cayce, Edgar

6.

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

7.

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

8.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

9.

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

Euripides

10.

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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Lyly, John

13.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

14.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

18.

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

19.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

20.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

21.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

22.

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

23.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Burns, George

25.

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

26.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

27.

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

28.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

29.

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

Thomas Sowell

30.

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

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

33.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

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

Kin Hubbard

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.