Motivational Quotes

Honesty

A few honest men are better than numbers.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Mamet, David

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

James, William

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

Otway, Thomas

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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 as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Blum, Leon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 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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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 the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Stephen, Leslie

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

28.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Euripides

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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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There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Gouthey, A. P.

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

Lyly, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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