Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Proverb, Scottish

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

10.

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

11.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

12.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

13.

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

Euripides

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

18.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

21.

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.

22.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

23.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

24.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

25.

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

Kin Hubbard

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

32.

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

Otway, Thomas

33.

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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.