Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Needham, Richard J.

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Blum, Leon

14.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Needham, Richard J.

18.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

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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 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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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

27.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

28.

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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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

30.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

31.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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.

33.

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.

34.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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

44.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

45.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Burns, George

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah