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

18.

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

Thomas Jefferson

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

21.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

22.

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

Landesberg, Steve

23.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

24.

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

Kant, Immanuel

25.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

26.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

27.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

28.

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

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

36.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

37.

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

Kin Hubbard

38.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

40.

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

Sam Rayburn

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

44.

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

45.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

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

47.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

James, William

50.

When in doubt, tell the truth.