Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

2.

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

Lyly, John

3.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

4.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

5.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

6.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

7.

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

8.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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.

11.

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

Cayce, Edgar

12.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

13.

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

14.

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

Chilo

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Allen, James

19.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

20.

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

Otway, Thomas

21.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

25.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

26.

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

Thomas Sowell

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

29.

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

James, William

30.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Stephen, Leslie

34.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

35.

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.

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.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

39.

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

Burns, George

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

Honesty is the best image.