Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Blum, Leon

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

Burns, George

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Bible

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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lyly, John

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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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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Chilo

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

Allen, James

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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

42.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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