Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Blum, Leon

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Allen, James

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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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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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