Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Sam Rayburn

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

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

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

Burns, George

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

13.

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

Landesberg, Steve

14.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Cayce, Edgar

17.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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.

19.

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

Euripides

20.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

22.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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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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

25.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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.

28.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

29.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

30.

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

31.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Stephen, Leslie

33.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

34.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

35.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Lyly, John

37.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

38.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

39.

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

Kin Hubbard

40.

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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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

42.

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.

43.

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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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

45.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

46.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

47.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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 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