Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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.

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

Ruskin, John

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Mamet, David

10.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

12.

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

13.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

14.

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

15.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

16.

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

17.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

21.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

22.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

23.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

24.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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.

27.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Cayce, Edgar

32.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

33.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Burns, George

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

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

43.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

44.

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

Pamela Ribon

45.

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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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?