Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Churchill, Winston

Robbins, Tim

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Mcmahon, Ed

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

William Shakespeare

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

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

Euripides

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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

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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

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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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.

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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ruskin, John

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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

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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

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

Lyly, John

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

Chilo

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

Mamet, David

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Allen, James

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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