Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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

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

Burns, George

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Blum, Leon

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

Kant, Immanuel

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Euripides

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Samuel Butler

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

Bible

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Lyly, John

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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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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.

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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