Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

2.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

3.

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

4.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

5.

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

Sam Rayburn

6.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

8.

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

9.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

10.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

Thomas Sowell

12.

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

Bible

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.

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.

15.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

16.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

Allen, James

20.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

23.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

24.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

25.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Kant, Immanuel

30.

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.

31.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

32.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Cayce, Edgar

35.

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

36.

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

37.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

47.

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

Landesberg, Steve

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry