Motivational Quotes

Honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Browne, Merry

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lyly, John

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Scottish

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Stephen, Leslie

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

16.

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

James, William

17.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

18.

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

19.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Thomas Jefferson

22.

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

Chilo

23.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

24.

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

Mamet, David

25.

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

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

34.

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

Blum, Leon

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Allen, James

43.

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

Samuel Butler

45.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

46.

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

Pamela Ribon

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They're only truly great who are truly good.