Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Otway, Thomas

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bible

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

10.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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.

13.

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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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

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Blum, Leon

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

18.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

19.

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

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

23.

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

Sam Rayburn

24.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

25.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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

31.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

32.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

33.

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

Burns, George

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

Euripides

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

Lyly, John

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

39.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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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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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.

44.

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

Pamela Ribon

45.

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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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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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