Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

2.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

3.

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

4.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

5.

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

Ruskin, John

6.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

7.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

8.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

9.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

10.

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

Lyly, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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.

16.

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

Otway, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

20.

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

21.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

22.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

27.

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

28.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

29.

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

30.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

31.

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

32.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

33.

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

Cayce, Edgar

34.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

35.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

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

37.

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

Thomas Sowell

38.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

39.

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

Stephen, Leslie

40.

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

James, William

41.

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

Thomas Jefferson

42.

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

43.

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

Allen, James

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Euripides

46.

Honesty is the best image.