Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Honesty

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Pamela Ribon

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

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

Burns, George

10.

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

Chilo

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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

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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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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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

Shakespeare, William

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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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 shines like a light through your eyes.

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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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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

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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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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

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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 image.

Tom Wilson

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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

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