Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Lyly, John

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Cayce, Edgar

12.

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 best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

15.

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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

18.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

19.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

20.

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

Burns, George

21.

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

Blum, Leon

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Kant, Immanuel

27.

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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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