Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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.

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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.

2.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

3.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

4.

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

Mamet, David

5.

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

Lyly, John

6.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Needham, Richard J.

10.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

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.

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Samuel Butler

14.

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.

15.

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

Thomas Jefferson

16.

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

Kant, Immanuel

17.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

18.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

22.

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

Stephen, Leslie

23.

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

24.

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

Kin Hubbard

25.

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

26.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

28.

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

Burns, George

29.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

Landesberg, Steve

33.

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

34.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

37.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

38.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

39.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

40.

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