Motivational Quotes

Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Honesty

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Lyly, John

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

Bible

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Thomas Sowell

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Sam Rayburn

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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.

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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 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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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

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