Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

2.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

3.

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

Mamet, David

4.

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

Kin Hubbard

5.

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

Kant, Immanuel

6.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

7.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

8.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Bible

11.

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.

12.

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

Stephen, Leslie

13.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

14.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

15.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

16.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Otway, Thomas

18.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

19.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

20.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

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

22.

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

Blum, Leon

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

29.

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

Landesberg, Steve

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Allen, James

32.

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

33.

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

Samuel Butler

34.

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

Lyly, John

35.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

36.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Burns, George

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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.

43.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

44.

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

45.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

46.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

47.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

48.

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

49.

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

James, William

50.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter