Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Stephen, Leslie

2.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

3.

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.

4.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

5.

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

6.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

7.

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

8.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

9.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

12.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

13.

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.

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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

17.

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

18.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

21.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

22.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Lyly, John

26.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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.

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.

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Bible

31.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

32.

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

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

34.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

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

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

Blum, Leon

38.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Landesberg, Steve

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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