Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Thomas Jefferson

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Samuel Butler

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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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

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Allen, James

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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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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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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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.

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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