Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Samuel Butler

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.

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lyly, John

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

Sam Rayburn

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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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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

James, William

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Otway, Thomas

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Thomas Sowell

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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