Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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.

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

Sam Rayburn

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

11.

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

James, William

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

16.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

17.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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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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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Allen, James

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

34.

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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chilo

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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