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

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

Allen, James

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Mamet, David

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

10.

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.

11.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

12.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

13.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

15.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

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.

17.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

18.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

19.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

20.

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

James, William

21.

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.

22.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

Stephen, Leslie

24.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Kin Hubbard

34.

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

35.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

36.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Sam Rayburn

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