Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Burns, George

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

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

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

James, William

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Lyly, John

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Blum, Leon

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Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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