Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Bible

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

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

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

Burns, George

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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

Allen, James

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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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

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

James, William

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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