Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Burns, George

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

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

Needham, Richard J.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Landesberg, Steve

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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

Allen, James

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Chilo

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Euripides

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

Kin Hubbard

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