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

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.

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

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Shakespeare, William

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

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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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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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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 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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Twain, Mark

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Chilo

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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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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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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Allen, James

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

Lyly, John

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

Euripides

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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.

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Blum, Leon

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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

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sam Rayburn