Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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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Best Quotes about Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Burns, George

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

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

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 best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

17.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

18.

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 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

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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

21.

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

22.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Otway, Thomas

25.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

28.

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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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

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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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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Kin Hubbard

37.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Thomas Jefferson

40.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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