Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about 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

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Chilo

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

Burns, George

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

10.

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

12.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Bible

34.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Blum, Leon

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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