Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

2.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

3.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

6.

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

Fielding, Henry

7.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

8.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Burns, George

16.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

17.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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.

20.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

23.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

24.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

25.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

26.

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

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.

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

Sam Rayburn

29.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

30.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

31.

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

32.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

33.

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

Euripides

34.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

35.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

36.

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

Needham, Richard J.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

James, William

40.

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

41.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

42.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

43.

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

Pamela Ribon

44.

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

Otway, Thomas

45.

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.

46.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

47.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

48.

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

49.

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

Blum, Leon

50.

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.