Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

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

Lyly, John

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

Chilo

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

10.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

11.

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

Allen, James

12.

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

13.

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

Needham, Richard J.

14.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

15.

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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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

17.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

18.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

19.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

20.

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

21.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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.

23.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Blum, Leon

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

27.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

28.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

30.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

31.

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

32.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas Jefferson

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

39.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

40.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

41.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

42.

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.

43.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

44.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

49.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.