Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

Pamela Ribon

3.

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

4.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

5.

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

Fielding, Henry

6.

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

Bible

7.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

15.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

16.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

18.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

19.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

20.

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

Thomas Jefferson

21.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, James

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

33.

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

34.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

35.

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

Chilo

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Kin Hubbard

39.

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

40.

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

Thomas Sowell

41.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

42.

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.

43.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

45.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

46.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George