Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Burns, George

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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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

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Pamela Ribon

17.

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

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

Allen, James

19.

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

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

Euripides

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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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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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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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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

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

30.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

31.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

37.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

39.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

41.

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

48.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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.

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.