Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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.

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

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

Euripides

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

10.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

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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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Kant, Immanuel

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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.

19.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

20.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mamet, David

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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

33.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy