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

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

Thomas Jefferson

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Mamet, David

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

Thomas Sowell

10.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

11.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Allen, James

15.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

16.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

17.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Stephen, Leslie

23.

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

24.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Needham, Richard J.

28.

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

29.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

30.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

31.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

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

Landesberg, Steve

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

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