Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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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Best Quotes about Honesty

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

James, William

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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

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

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

Burns, George

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

22.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Kant, Immanuel

24.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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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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

28.

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

Bible

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Allen, James

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Twain, Mark

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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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 image.

Tom Wilson

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

Needham, Richard J.

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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.

44.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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