Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Euripides

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

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

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

10.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

13.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

14.

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

Lyly, John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

18.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Chilo

21.

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

Kin Hubbard

22.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

23.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

24.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

25.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

26.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

28.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

29.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Landesberg, Steve

37.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

38.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

39.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Pamela Ribon

41.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

42.

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

43.

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

Fielding, Henry

44.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Scottish

50.

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

Burns, George