Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Benson, Edward Frederic

Best Quotes about Honesty

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

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

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Needham, Richard J.

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

James, William

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

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

10.

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

11.

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

Burns, George

12.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

13.

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.

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

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

16.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

20.

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

Thomas Sowell

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Sam Rayburn

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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

25.

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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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

27.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

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

Otway, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

33.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

34.

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

35.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Stephen, Leslie

38.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Allen, James

40.

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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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

42.

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

Landesberg, Steve

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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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

47.

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

Kin Hubbard