Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Thomas Sowell

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Bible

2.

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.

3.

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

Otway, Thomas

4.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

5.

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

6.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

7.

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

8.

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

Thomas Sowell

9.

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

Chilo

10.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

13.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

14.

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

Pamela Ribon

15.

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

16.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

18.

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

Cayce, Edgar

19.

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

Needham, Richard J.

20.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

21.

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

Allen, James

22.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

28.

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

Mamet, David

29.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

30.

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

Thomas Jefferson

31.

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

32.

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

Lyly, John

33.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

34.

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

35.

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