Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

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

Sam Rayburn

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Blum, Leon

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Chilo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

James, William

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Ruskin, John

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Burns, George

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Samuel Butler

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Needham, Richard J.

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Euripides

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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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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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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

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund