Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

2.

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

Thomas Sowell

3.

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

Allen, James

4.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

5.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

6.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

7.

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.

8.

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.

9.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

10.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

11.

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

Otway, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Cayce, Edgar

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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.

25.

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

Chilo

26.

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

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

31.

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

Lyly, John

32.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

33.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

34.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

35.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

36.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Landesberg, Steve

38.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Sam Rayburn

40.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

41.

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

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

43.

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

Needham, Richard J.

44.

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

45.

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