Motivational Quotes

Honesty

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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.

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.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Burns, George

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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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

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

James, William

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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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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

18.

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Chilo

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Lyly, John

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

Blum, Leon

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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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.