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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Otway, Thomas

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Allen, James

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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

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Samuel Butler

17.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

18.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

24.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

29.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Bible

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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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

40.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

41.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Ruskin, John

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

49.

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

Blum, Leon

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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