Motivational Quotes

Honesty

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

12.

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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Euripides

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

32.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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.

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

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas Sowell

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