Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Allen, James

8.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

17.

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

Chilo

18.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

22.

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

23.

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

Euripides

24.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

25.

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

Thomas Sowell

26.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Thomas Jefferson

29.

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

Otway, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

33.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

34.

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

Mamet, David

35.

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

Lyly, John

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Blum, Leon

39.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

40.

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

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

43.

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

Landesberg, Steve

44.

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

James, William

45.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

46.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

47.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

48.

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

49.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

50.

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

Mcmahon, Ed