Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Lyly, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

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

Allen, James

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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

James, William

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Pamela Ribon

21.

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

Bible

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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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