Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Honesty

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Lyly, John

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

Proverb, Scottish

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Blum, Leon

10.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

11.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

12.

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

Twain, Mark

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

19.

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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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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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Euripides

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Kin Hubbard

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Allen, James

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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

39.

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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Thomas Sowell

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo