Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Needham, Richard J.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Ash, Mary Kay

10.

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

11.

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

Otway, Thomas

12.

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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.

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

24.

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

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

26.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

27.

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

28.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

31.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Allen, James

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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.

34.

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

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

Cayce, Edgar

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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