Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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.

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

Proverb, Scottish

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Pamela Ribon

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Allen, James

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Euripides

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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Lyly, John

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Ruskin, John