Motivational Quotes

Honesty

You can't make wrong work.

- Waterhouse, Gerald

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Blum, Leon

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cayce, Edgar

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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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 is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Churchill, Winston

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Euripides

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

Lyly, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Allen, James

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Otway, Thomas

41.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

43.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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 live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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.