Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Bible

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

Thomas Jefferson

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Fielding, Henry

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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.

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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

19.

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

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

22.

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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Sam Rayburn

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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.

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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.

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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.

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Allen, James

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Needham, Richard J.

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.