Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Euripides

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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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.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Sowell

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Cayce, Edgar

34.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Kin Hubbard

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Blum, Leon