Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Honesty

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

James, William

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

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

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

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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.

10.

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

Kant, Immanuel

11.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

12.

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

Bible

13.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Ruskin, John

15.

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.

16.

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

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

Otway, Thomas

19.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

20.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

23.

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.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

25.

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

Chilo

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

32.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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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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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

35.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

37.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

38.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

Lyly, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Allen, James

45.

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