Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

William Shakespeare

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Sam Rayburn

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

10.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

11.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

12.

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

13.

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

Landesberg, Steve

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

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

16.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

17.

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

18.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

22.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

24.

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

Needham, Richard J.

25.

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

26.

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

Kant, Immanuel

27.

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Otway, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Stephen, Leslie

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

35.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Kin Hubbard

39.

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

Thomas Sowell

40.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

41.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

42.

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

Mamet, David

43.

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

Thomas Jefferson

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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.

49.

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

Fielding, Henry

50.

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