Motivational Quotes

Honesty

You can't make wrong work.

- Waterhouse, Gerald

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Cayce, Edgar

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

James, William

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

13.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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 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 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 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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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

22.

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

Bible

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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

28.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Pamela Ribon

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Lyly, John

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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.

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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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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter