Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Samuel Butler

2.

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

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

5.

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

Stephen, Leslie

6.

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

Mamet, David

7.

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

Sam Rayburn

8.

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

Thomas Jefferson

9.

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

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

13.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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

17.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

18.

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.

19.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

20.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

21.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

22.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

23.

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

Lyly, John

24.

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

25.

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

Cayce, Edgar

26.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

27.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

28.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

29.

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

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

Otway, Thomas

32.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Proverb, Scottish

37.

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

Landesberg, Steve

38.

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

39.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

40.

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

Chilo

41.

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.

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

45.

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

46.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

47.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

48.

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

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

50.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy