Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Stephen, Leslie

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

Allen, James

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

Mamet, David

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

Sam Rayburn

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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

14.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

16.

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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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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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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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

21.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

22.

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

Kin Hubbard

23.

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

24.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

25.

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

26.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

27.

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

James, William

28.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

Burns, George

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

33.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

34.

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

Stephen, Leslie

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Euripides

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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

40.

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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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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Lyly, John

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

46.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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