Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Chilo

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

7.

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

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

10.

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

11.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

12.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

13.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

14.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

15.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

16.

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

Allen, James

17.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

18.

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.

19.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

24.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

25.

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

Lyly, John

26.

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

Thomas Jefferson

27.

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

Stephen, Leslie

28.

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

29.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

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

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

33.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Cayce, Edgar

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

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

41.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

43.

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

James, William

44.

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.