Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

12.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Mamet, David

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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

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

Sam Rayburn

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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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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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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Allen, James

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Blum, Leon

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Burns, George

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah