Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Honesty

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Lyly, John

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

James, William

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

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

Euripides

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

Allen, James

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.

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

Chilo

10.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

11.

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

Stephen, Leslie

12.

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

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

15.

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

Mamet, David

17.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

18.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Blum, Leon

22.

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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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.

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

25.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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

27.

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

Sam Rayburn

28.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

29.

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

30.

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

Thomas Sowell

31.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

35.

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

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

37.

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

Bible

38.

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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

40.

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.

41.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

Kant, Immanuel

44.

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

45.

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.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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