Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

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

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Sam Rayburn

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

15.

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

Landesberg, Steve

16.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

17.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

18.

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.

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

21.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

22.

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

23.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

24.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Blum, Leon

26.

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.

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.

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

Allen, James

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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.

31.

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

Kin Hubbard

32.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

33.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

34.

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

35.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

36.

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

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

Mamet, David

41.

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

Cayce, Edgar

42.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

43.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

44.

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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

47.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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