Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

2.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

3.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

4.

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

Blum, Leon

5.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

6.

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.

7.

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

James, William

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Sam Rayburn

10.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Bible

13.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

14.

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

15.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

16.

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

Thomas Sowell

17.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

18.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

19.

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

Kin Hubbard

20.

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

Chilo

21.

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

Lyly, John

22.

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

23.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Cayce, Edgar

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Landesberg, Steve

36.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

41.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

42.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

Thomas Jefferson

47.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

48.

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

49.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

50.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay