Motivational Quotes

Honesty

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

Euripides

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Burns, George

15.

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

Stephen, Leslie

17.

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

18.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

19.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

20.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

21.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

22.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

23.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

24.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

28.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

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

30.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

31.

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

Kant, Immanuel

32.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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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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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

38.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

41.

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.

42.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

43.

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

James, William

44.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

45.

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

Kin Hubbard

47.

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

Allen, James

48.

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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Thomas Jefferson