Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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Best Quotes about Honesty

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

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

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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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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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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Allen, James

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Bible

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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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.