Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Lyly, John

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Chilo

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

Blum, Leon

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

17.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

Bible

22.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

26.

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

Landesberg, Steve

27.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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

30.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

31.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

32.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Otway, Thomas

35.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

36.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

40.

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.

41.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

43.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

44.

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

James, William

45.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.