Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

2.

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

Cayce, Edgar

3.

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

Sam Rayburn

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

6.

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

7.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

8.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

9.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

10.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Allen, James

12.

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

Otway, Thomas

13.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

14.

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

Mamet, David

15.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

16.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

20.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

25.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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.

27.

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

Lyly, John

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

Burns, George

37.

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

Chilo

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

Stephen, Leslie

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Pamela Ribon

44.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

45.

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.

46.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

47.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Samuel Butler