Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

2.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Landesberg, Steve

6.

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

Pamela Ribon

7.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

8.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

9.

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

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

13.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

14.

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

15.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Burns, George

19.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

20.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

23.

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

Thomas Sowell

24.

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

25.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

26.

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

Blum, Leon

27.

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

Cayce, Edgar

28.

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.

29.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

30.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

31.

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

32.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

33.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Samuel Butler

36.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

37.

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

Thomas Jefferson

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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.

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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