Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

3.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

4.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

6.

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

Landesberg, Steve

7.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

8.

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

9.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

13.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

14.

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

Pamela Ribon

15.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

James, William

19.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Cayce, Edgar

22.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

23.

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

Mamet, David

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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.

29.

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

Kin Hubbard

30.

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.

31.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Thomas Sowell

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

45.

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

William Shakespeare