Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

2.

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

Proverb, Scottish

3.

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.

4.

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

Otway, Thomas

5.

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

Thomas Jefferson

6.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

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

Samuel Butler

9.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

10.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

Thomas Sowell

14.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

15.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

16.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

18.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

Chilo

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Stephen, Leslie

26.

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

Lyly, John

27.

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

28.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Mamet, David

31.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

32.

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.

33.

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

Needham, Richard J.

34.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

35.

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

Blum, Leon

36.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

37.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

38.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

39.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Pamela Ribon

46.

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

47.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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.

50.

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

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