Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Euripides

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

James, William

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Pamela Ribon

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

36.

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

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Allen, James

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