Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Churchill, Winston

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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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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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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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 true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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