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

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

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Otway, Thomas

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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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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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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Blum, Leon

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

Bible

25.

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

Lyly, John

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Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

27.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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

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

Euripides

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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

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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Landesberg, Steve

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

Stephen, Leslie

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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