Motivational Quotes

Honesty

A few honest men are better than numbers.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

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

Mamet, David

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

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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

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

Euripides

21.

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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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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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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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.

25.

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

Allen, James

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Burns, George

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Chilo

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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

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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.

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

James, William

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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.