Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Allen, James

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

Blum, Leon

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Thomas Sowell

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

James, William

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Pamela Ribon

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Kant, Immanuel

17.

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

Bible

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Euripides

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

Mcmahon, Ed

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

Ruskin, John

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

Needham, Richard J.

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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.

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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Burns, George

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Kin Hubbard

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