Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Mamet, David

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Chilo

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

12.

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

13.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

14.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

15.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

16.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

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.

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

Samuel Butler

20.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

21.

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

Kin Hubbard

22.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

23.

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

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

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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

28.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

29.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

31.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

32.

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

Burns, George

33.

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.

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

Sam Rayburn

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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

37.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

38.

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.

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

41.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

42.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

43.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

44.

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.

45.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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

47.

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

Cayce, Edgar

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

50.

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