Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Honesty

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Needham, Richard J.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

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

10.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

13.

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

Allen, James

14.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

15.

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

Otway, Thomas

16.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

17.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

18.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

19.

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

21.

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.

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

24.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

25.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Burns, George

30.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

31.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

33.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Thomas Jefferson

35.

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

36.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

37.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

38.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

39.

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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

41.

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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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

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

46.

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

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Kin Hubbard

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry