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

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

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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

Samuel Butler

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

Mamet, David

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

James, William

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Allen, James

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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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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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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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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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Twain, Mark

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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