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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

Cayce, Edgar

12.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

24.

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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Gouthey, A. P.

27.

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

Thomas Sowell

28.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Euripides

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

Burns, George

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Bible

35.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Shakespeare, William

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

40.

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

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