Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

2.

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

Mamet, David

3.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

4.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

5.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

6.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

7.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

8.

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

Blum, Leon

9.

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

Euripides

10.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

12.

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

Needham, Richard J.

13.

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

14.

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

Burns, George

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

17.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

18.

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.

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Samuel Butler

21.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

24.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

25.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

26.

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

Cayce, Edgar

27.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

28.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

29.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

30.

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

Chilo

31.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

32.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

35.

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

36.

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

Stephen, Leslie

37.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

39.

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

Thomas Sowell

40.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

41.

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

Lyly, John

42.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

43.

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

44.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Bible

50.

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.