Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

2.

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

Mamet, David

3.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

6.

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

7.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

10.

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

11.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

14.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

15.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

16.

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

17.

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

Kin Hubbard

18.

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

Thomas Jefferson

19.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

20.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

21.

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

Stephen, Leslie

22.

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

23.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

24.

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

25.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

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

28.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

34.

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

35.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Thomas Sowell

37.

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.

38.

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

Otway, Thomas

39.

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

40.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

41.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

45.

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

46.

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

Kant, Immanuel

47.

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

Landesberg, Steve

48.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

49.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.