Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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.

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Shakespeare, William

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Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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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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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Allen, James

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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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

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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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

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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.