Motivational Quotes

Honesty

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Honesty

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Thomas Sowell

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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.

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

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

Mamet, David

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

Lyly, John

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

13.

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

Landesberg, Steve

14.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

15.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

16.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

17.

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

James, William

18.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

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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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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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

30.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

33.

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

Thomas Jefferson

34.

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.

35.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

36.

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

Chilo

38.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

39.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

40.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

42.

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

Samuel Butler

43.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

44.

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

45.

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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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

47.

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

Kin Hubbard

48.

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

Proverb, Scottish

49.

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

Allen, James

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