Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Fielding, Henry

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

8.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

9.

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

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

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.

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

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.

14.

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

Needham, Richard J.

15.

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

Pamela Ribon

16.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

17.

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

Samuel Butler

18.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

19.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

20.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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.

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

James, William

23.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John

24.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

25.

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

26.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

27.

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

Lyly, John

28.

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

29.

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

Kin Hubbard

30.

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

31.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

32.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

33.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

34.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

35.

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

36.

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

Thomas Jefferson

37.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

38.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

39.

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

Sam Rayburn

40.

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

Cayce, Edgar

41.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

42.

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

Landesberg, Steve

43.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

45.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

46.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

47.

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

48.

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

Euripides

49.

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

Otway, Thomas

50.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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