Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Honesty

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Blum, Leon

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

10.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

11.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

12.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

13.

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

Kant, Immanuel

14.

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

Stephen, Leslie

15.

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

Cayce, Edgar

16.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

17.

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.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

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.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Pamela Ribon

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

25.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

31.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

32.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

33.

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

Lyly, John

34.

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

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

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

38.

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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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.

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

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Burns, George

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

Samuel Butler

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

Euripides

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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

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

James, William