Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lyly, John

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

Needham, Richard J.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

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

Euripides

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

12.

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

Mamet, David

13.

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

Allen, James

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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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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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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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

Burns, George

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

Chilo

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Otway, Thomas

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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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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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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Proverb, Scottish

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

46.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.