Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

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

Mamet, David

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.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

James, William

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

Thomas Sowell

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

11.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, James

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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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 live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Shakespeare, William

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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.

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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

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Bible

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lyly, John

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver