Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Fielding, Henry

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

10.

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

11.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

12.

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

Landesberg, Steve

13.

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

Samuel Butler

14.

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

Lyly, John

15.

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

16.

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

Kin Hubbard

17.

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

Cayce, Edgar

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

23.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

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

31.

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

Blum, Leon

32.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Burns, George

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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.

37.

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

Chilo

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Mamet, David

41.

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

42.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Proverb, Scottish

46.

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

47.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

49.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

50.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy