Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kant, Immanuel

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 rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

12.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Chilo

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Sam Rayburn

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

James, William

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson