Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Honesty

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Stephen, Leslie

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

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

James, William

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

Lyly, John

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

Kant, Immanuel

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

12.

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.

13.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

16.

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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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

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

Thomas Sowell

20.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

21.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Euripides

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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

25.

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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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

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

Chilo

28.

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

Pamela Ribon

29.

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.

30.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

31.

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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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

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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 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

35.

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

Allen, James

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

Burns, George

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

44.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.