Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Burns, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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

11.

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

Landesberg, Steve

12.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

13.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

14.

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

15.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

16.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Chilo

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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

20.

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

Blum, Leon

21.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

22.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Thomas Sowell

24.

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

25.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

26.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

27.

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

28.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

29.

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.

30.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

31.

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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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.

33.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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.

35.

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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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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

40.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

41.

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

Allen, James

42.

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

Lyly, John

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

45.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

47.

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

Sam Rayburn

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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

49.

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

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

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