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

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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

Mamet, David

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Lyly, John

11.

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.

12.

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

Stephen, Leslie

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Landesberg, Steve

16.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

24.

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

Kin Hubbard

25.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

26.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

27.

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

28.

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

Burns, George

29.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

30.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

31.

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

Allen, James

32.

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

33.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

Samuel Butler

40.

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

41.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

42.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

43.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.