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

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Burns, George

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Pamela Ribon

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

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

10.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Cayce, Edgar

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

28.

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

James, William

29.

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

30.

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

Mamet, David

31.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

32.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

33.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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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

40.

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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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

42.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

43.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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 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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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