Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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

Samuel Butler

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Jefferson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Allen, James

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Blum, Leon

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Lyly, John

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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