Motivational Quotes

Honesty

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

- Cayce, Edgar

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thomas Sowell

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Lyly, John

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Blum, Leon

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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 best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

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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 prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Allen, James

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Euripides

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Otway, Thomas

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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