Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Blum, Leon

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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