Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Euripides

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

Lyly, John

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

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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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

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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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Nouwen, Henri

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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.

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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

James, William

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Fielding, Henry

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Blum, Leon

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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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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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Bible

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.