Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

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

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.

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

Stephen, Leslie

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Lyly, John

10.

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

James, William

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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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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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

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Bible

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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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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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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

25.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Allen, James

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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.