Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

James, William

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Bible

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

Lyly, John

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

10.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

11.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

16.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

17.

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.

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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

23.

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

Euripides

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

Cayce, Edgar

26.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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

Blum, Leon

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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Stephen, Leslie

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Landesberg, Steve

39.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

40.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Otway, Thomas

45.

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

Sam Rayburn

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