Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

Otway, Thomas

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Bible

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

Mamet, David

10.

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

Sam Rayburn

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

22.

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

Samuel Butler

23.

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

Kant, Immanuel

24.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

25.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

26.

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

Blum, Leon

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

35.

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

36.

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

Pamela Ribon

37.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

41.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

42.

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.

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

46.

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

Churchill, Winston