Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

- Arendt, Leah

Best Quotes about Honesty

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Stephen, Leslie

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Sam Rayburn

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

James, William

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

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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.

11.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Allen, James

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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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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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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

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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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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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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.

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

29.

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

Burns, George

30.

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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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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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Thomas Sowell

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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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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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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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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

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

Lyly, John

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