Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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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Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

6.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

7.

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

Blum, Leon

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Thomas Jefferson

10.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

11.

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

Samuel Butler

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

19.

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.

20.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

21.

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

Landesberg, Steve

22.

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

Stephen, Leslie

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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.

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Chilo

31.

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

James, William

32.

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

33.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

34.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Kin Hubbard

39.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

40.

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.

41.

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

Cayce, Edgar

42.

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

Mamet, David

43.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

44.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund