Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sam Rayburn

12.

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

Stephen, Leslie

13.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bible

17.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

18.

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

Lyly, John

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Pamela Ribon

22.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

23.

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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

25.

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 is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

29.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

30.

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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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

34.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

35.

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

Euripides

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

James, William

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

Allen, James

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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

39.

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

Landesberg, Steve

40.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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.

44.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

50.

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