Motivational Quotes

Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

2.

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

Mamet, David

3.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

5.

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

6.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

7.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

8.

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

9.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

10.

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

Lyly, John

11.

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

James, William

12.

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.

13.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

14.

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

Chilo

15.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

16.

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

Cayce, Edgar

17.

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

18.

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

Thomas Sowell

19.

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

Pamela Ribon

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Sam Rayburn

34.

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

Blum, Leon

35.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

36.

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.

37.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

39.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

40.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

43.

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

44.

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

Thomas Jefferson

45.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

46.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

47.

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

48.

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

Needham, Richard J.

49.

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

Allen, James

50.

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

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