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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

Nouwen, Henri

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Samuel Butler

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

James, William

11.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

12.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

13.

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

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

16.

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

Landesberg, Steve

17.

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

Bible

18.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

19.

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

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

Mamet, David

25.

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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

28.

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

Otway, Thomas

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

Kin Hubbard

32.

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

33.

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

Thomas Sowell

35.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

36.

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

Blum, Leon

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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

39.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Stephen, Leslie

43.

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

44.

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

Chilo

45.

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

46.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

47.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter