Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

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.

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

Thomas Sowell

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

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.

20.

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

Lyly, John

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Pamela Ribon

23.

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

Allen, James

24.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

25.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Blum, Leon

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

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

34.

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

35.

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

Thomas Jefferson

36.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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 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

39.

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

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

42.

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

43.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

44.

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

Cayce, Edgar

45.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

47.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

48.

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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.