Motivational Quotes

Honesty

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Chilo

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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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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

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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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

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Lyly, John

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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.

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

Euripides