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

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

Fielding, Henry

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

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

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.

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

Burns, George

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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

11.

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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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

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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

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Allen, James

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

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

James, William

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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

23.

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

24.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

25.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

27.

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

28.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Thomas Sowell

30.

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

Blum, Leon

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

33.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

34.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

35.

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

Cayce, Edgar

36.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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.

39.

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

Kin Hubbard

40.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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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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

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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