Motivational Quotes

Honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Browne, Merry

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Thomas Jefferson

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Needham, Richard J.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Sam Rayburn

10.

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

11.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

12.

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

Thomas Sowell

13.

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

James, William

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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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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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Bible

22.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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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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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

27.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Otway, Thomas

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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