Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lyly, John

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Burns, George

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

10.

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

Allen, James

11.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

12.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

13.

There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Gouthey, A. P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Ruskin, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Samuel Butler

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

James, William

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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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

44.

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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Bible

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob