Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sam Rayburn

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Allen, James

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Otway, Thomas

17.

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

18.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

19.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

23.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

24.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

25.

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

Burns, George

26.

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

Thomas Sowell

27.

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

Kin Hubbard

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

33.

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

34.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

35.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

36.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

37.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

42.

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

43.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

44.

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

45.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

46.

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

Chilo

47.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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