Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

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

Burns, George

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

Chilo

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

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

Mamet, David

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

11.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Lyly, John

15.

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

16.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

17.

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

James, William

18.

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

19.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

22.

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

Stephen, Leslie

23.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

26.

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

Cayce, Edgar

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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

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

30.

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

Allen, James

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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

32.

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

35.

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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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.

37.

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

38.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

39.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

40.

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

Sam Rayburn

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain