Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Mcmahon, Ed

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

Allen, James

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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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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

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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

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

Sam Rayburn

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund