Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Honesty

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Thomas Sowell

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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 the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

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

Blum, Leon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Burns, George

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

Bible

25.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

26.

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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Euripides

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Fielding, Henry

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Allen, James

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John