Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Burns, George

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

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

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Allen, James

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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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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Euripides

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

29.

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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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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

James, William

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

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

Bible

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

Blum, Leon

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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