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

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

James, William

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Chilo

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

Euripides

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Samuel Butler

10.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

11.

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.

12.

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

Burns, George

13.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

14.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

15.

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.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

18.

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

Stephen, Leslie

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

22.

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

23.

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

Blum, Leon

24.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

25.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Lyly, John

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

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

Landesberg, Steve

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Allen, James

33.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kin Hubbard

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mamet, David

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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