Motivational Quotes

Honesty

A few honest men are better than numbers.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Samuel Butler

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Thomas Jefferson

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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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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.

17.

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

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Blum, Leon

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

23.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

24.

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

25.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

27.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Otway, Thomas

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

James, William

32.

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

Allen, James

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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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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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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

42.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

44.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

45.

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 shines like a light through your eyes.

47.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stephen, Leslie