Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Euripides

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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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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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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.

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lyly, John

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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 live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

14.

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 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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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Otway, Thomas

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Landesberg, Steve

37.

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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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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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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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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On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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