Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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.

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Best Quotes about Honesty

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

Samuel Butler

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Cayce, Edgar

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

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

Blum, Leon

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.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Euripides

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Thomas Sowell

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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

Chilo

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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

Lyly, John

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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 in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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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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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

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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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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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

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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

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

Allen, James

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Burns, George

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

Landesberg, Steve

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fielding, Henry