Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

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

Kin Hubbard

4.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

5.

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.

6.

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

Thomas Sowell

7.

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

Kant, Immanuel

8.

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

Landesberg, Steve

9.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Otway, Thomas

13.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

14.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

15.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

Thomas Jefferson

18.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

19.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

20.

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.

21.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

22.

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

Allen, James

23.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

24.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

25.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Pamela Ribon

32.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

33.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

34.

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

35.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

40.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

41.

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

42.

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

Stephen, Leslie

43.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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