Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Mamet, David

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

Allen, James

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Chilo

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Otway, Thomas

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Needham, Richard J.

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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