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

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

Mcmahon, Ed

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lyly, John

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

Euripides

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

28.

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

Burns, George

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

James, William

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.