Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Chilo

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

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

Allen, James

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Pamela Ribon

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Proverb, Scottish

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

James, William

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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

Blum, Leon