Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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 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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chilo

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

Kant, Immanuel

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent