Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty is the best image.

- Tom Wilson

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Euripides

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Landesberg, Steve

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Lyly, John

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

Kin Hubbard

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

21.

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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Burns, George

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Chilo

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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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