Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about 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

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

Euripides

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Thomas Jefferson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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

Pamela Ribon

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Chilo

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

Thomas Sowell

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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

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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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

Mamet, David

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

James, William

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

Sam Rayburn

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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

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ruskin, John

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

Samuel Butler

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Blum, Leon

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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund