Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Needham, Richard J.

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Kin Hubbard

3.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

4.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

10.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

13.

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

Pamela Ribon

14.

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

15.

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

Lyly, John

16.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

17.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

18.

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

Otway, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Allen, James

22.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

23.

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

Thomas Sowell

24.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

25.

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

Stephen, Leslie

26.

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

Mamet, David

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

29.

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

Samuel Butler

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

32.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

33.

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

Burns, George

34.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

35.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

36.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Needham, Richard J.

38.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

43.

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

44.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

45.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

50.

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