Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

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

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

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

Lyly, John

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Stephen, Leslie

10.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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.

19.

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 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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Allen, James

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Thomas Sowell

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Bible

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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.

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver