Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Sam Rayburn

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.

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

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

9.

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

10.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

11.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

12.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

13.

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

Euripides

14.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

15.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Blum, Leon

17.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

18.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

19.

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

James, William

20.

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.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Proverb, Scottish

30.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

32.

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

Burns, George

33.

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

34.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

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.

36.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

37.

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

Kin Hubbard

38.

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

Allen, James

39.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

40.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

41.

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

42.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Needham, Richard J.

45.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.