Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Proverb, Scottish

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

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

Burns, George

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

James, William

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lyly, John

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

Mcmahon, Ed

10.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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

12.

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

Blum, Leon

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Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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

Chilo

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

28.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

29.

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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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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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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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

33.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

34.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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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.