Motivational Quotes

Honesty

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

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

3.

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

Lyly, John

4.

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

5.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

6.

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

7.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

8.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

9.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

10.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Samuel Butler

12.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

13.

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

Mamet, David

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

Thomas Sowell

16.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

17.

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

Burns, George

18.

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

Otway, Thomas

19.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

25.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

26.

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

27.

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

Needham, Richard J.

28.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

29.

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

Thomas Jefferson

30.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

31.

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

Mcmahon, Ed

32.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Allen, James

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

37.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

38.

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.

39.

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

Landesberg, Steve

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Ruskin, John

45.

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

James, William

46.

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.

47.

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

Kant, Immanuel

48.

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

Sam Rayburn

49.

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

50.

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