Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

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

Allen, James

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Chilo

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Ruskin, John

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

25.

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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lyly, John

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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

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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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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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