Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, James

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

Samuel Butler

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

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Needham, Richard J.

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Marden, Orison Swett

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kant, Immanuel

24.

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

Bible

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Mamet, David

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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

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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 for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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