Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Be prepared and be honest.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Burns, George

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

Thomas Sowell

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

James, William

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

20.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Samuel Butler

28.

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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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

32.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Bible

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A few honest men are better than numbers.