Motivational Quotes

Honesty

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

2.

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

Thomas Jefferson

3.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Burns, George

6.

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

Needham, Richard J.

7.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

8.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

9.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

10.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

11.

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

Lyly, John

12.

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

13.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

14.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

15.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

16.

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

Stephen, Leslie

17.

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

Pamela Ribon

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

20.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Mamet, David

28.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

29.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

30.

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.

31.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

33.

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

Otway, Thomas

34.

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

Chilo

35.

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

Thomas Sowell

36.

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

Landesberg, Steve

37.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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.

41.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

42.

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

43.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

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

Bible

45.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

46.

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.

47.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

48.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

50.

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