Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Honesty

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.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Burns, George

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Allen, James

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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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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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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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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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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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

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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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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

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

James, William

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

Lyly, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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