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

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

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Kin Hubbard

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Churchill, Winston

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Blum, Leon

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Allen, James

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty is the best image.