Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pamela Ribon

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

14.

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

Otway, Thomas

15.

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

Bible

16.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

17.

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

James, William

18.

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

19.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

24.

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

25.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Blum, Leon

28.

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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

30.

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

31.

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

Kant, Immanuel

32.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

33.

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

Needham, Richard J.

34.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

35.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

41.

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

Twain, Mark

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?