Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Sam Rayburn

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

14.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

15.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Otway, Thomas

21.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

24.

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

Pamela Ribon

25.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Euripides

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

31.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

32.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

33.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

34.

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.

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

40.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

41.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

42.

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

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Houston, Sam

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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.