Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

10.

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

11.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

12.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

13.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

14.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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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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.

17.

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

18.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

19.

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

20.

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

Sam Rayburn

21.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

22.

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

23.

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

Pamela Ribon

24.

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

Kant, Immanuel

25.

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

Thomas Sowell

26.

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

Kin Hubbard

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

Bible

29.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

30.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

31.

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

James, William

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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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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

37.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

Twain, Mark

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

42.

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

43.

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

Blum, Leon

44.

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.

45.

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

Burns, George

46.

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

Needham, Richard J.

48.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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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