Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Mcmahon, Ed

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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

11.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

12.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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.

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

Chilo

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Sugarman, Joseph

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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

25.

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

Burns, George

26.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Samuel Butler

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

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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.

34.

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

Lyly, John

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

James, William

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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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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

44.

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

45.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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