Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Landesberg, Steve

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

2.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

3.

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

4.

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

Kin Hubbard

5.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

6.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

10.

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.

11.

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

Blum, Leon

12.

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

13.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Lyly, John

17.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

18.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

19.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

20.

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

Sam Rayburn

21.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

22.

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

Landesberg, Steve

23.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

24.

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

25.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

32.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

33.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

34.

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

35.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

James, William

38.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

42.

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

43.

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

Cayce, Edgar

44.

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

45.

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

Kant, Immanuel

46.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

47.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

Thomas Sowell

50.

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

Stephen, Leslie