Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Burns, George

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Euripides

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

21.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Kant, Immanuel

27.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

James, William

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Allen, James

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

Proverb, Scottish

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Bible

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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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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Sowell

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.