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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Kin Hubbard

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Samuel Butler

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

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

Stephen, Leslie

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Landesberg, Steve

14.

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.

15.

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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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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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

18.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

19.

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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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 is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

23.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Pamela Ribon

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

27.

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

Sam Rayburn

28.

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

Thomas Jefferson

30.

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

31.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

James, William

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Bible

36.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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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.

44.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

45.

Sugarman, Joseph

46.

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

Chilo

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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