Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Honesty

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Thomas Sowell

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

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

Bible

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

Thomas Jefferson

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Samuel Butler

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

James, William

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Lyly, John

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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

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Blum, Leon

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

Burns, George

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles