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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Lyly, John

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

12.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

14.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

15.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

17.

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

18.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

19.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

24.

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

Benson, Edward Frederic

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

28.

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

Bible

30.

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.

31.

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

33.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

35.

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

36.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Chilo

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

42.

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

Stephen, Leslie

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

45.

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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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