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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Otway, Thomas

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

11.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

12.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Euripides

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

Lyly, John

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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

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Sam Rayburn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Butler

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

Mamet, David

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

Thomas Sowell

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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

32.

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

33.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

34.

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

Allen, James

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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 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 is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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.

42.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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

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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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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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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.

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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston