Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Honesty

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Chilo

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

Ruskin, John

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

10.

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 for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Shakespeare, William

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bible

28.

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

Burns, George

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

30.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

32.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Euripides

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thomas Sowell

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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

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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 annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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 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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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