Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Pamela Ribon

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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.

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

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Churchill, Winston

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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

Stephen, Leslie

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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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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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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

James, William

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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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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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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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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Burns, George

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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