Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Mamet, David

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Euripides

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Ruskin, John

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

James, William

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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

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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.