Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Stephen, Leslie

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Bible

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

James, William

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

Lyly, John

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Euripides

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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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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

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Twain, Mark

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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