Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

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

Samuel Butler

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Lyly, John

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kant, Immanuel

14.

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

15.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Chilo

20.

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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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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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.

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

James, William

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Sowell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Otway, Thomas

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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.

34.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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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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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Cayce, Edgar

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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