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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
Honesty Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Honesty

1.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson

2.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides

4.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Fielding, Henry

5.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

6.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Mcmahon, Ed

7.
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
Marden, Orison Swett

8.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain

9.
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.

10.
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn

11.
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

12.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Graham, Billy

13.
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
Proverb, French

14.
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
Mamet, David

15.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Young, Brigham

16.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.
There is no right way to do something wrong.

18.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Blum, Leon

19.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Needham, Richard J.

20.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Otway, Thomas

21.
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

22.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Browne, Merry

23.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Carlyle, Thomas

24.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott

25.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Raleigh, Sir Walter

26.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler

27.
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

28.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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.

32.
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Shakespeare, William

33.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

34.
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

35.
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

36.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Chapman, George

37.
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

38.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Kant, Immanuel

39.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare

40.
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

41.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Stephen, Leslie

42.
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

43.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Allen, James

44.
An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Be prepared and be honest.
Wooden, John

48.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare

49.
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

50.
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Landesberg, Steve


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