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

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.

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

Otway, Thomas

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.

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

Proverb, Scottish

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

Thomas Sowell

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

23.

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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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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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Ruskin, John

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

33.

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 as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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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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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

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

James, William

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Bible

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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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