Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Be prepared and be honest.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Honesty

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

Thomas Sowell

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

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

William Shakespeare

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

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

James, William

11.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landesberg, Steve

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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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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

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

Cayce, Edgar

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

Otway, Thomas

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Allen, James

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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