Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mamet, David

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

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

Stephen, Leslie

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

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

Euripides

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

James, William

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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

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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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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

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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.

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

Chilo

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

30.

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

Blum, Leon

31.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bible

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

Sam Rayburn

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Pamela Ribon

43.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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.

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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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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

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson