Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Honesty

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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 for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Blum, Leon

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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

Lyly, John

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

James, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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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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You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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

Thomas Sowell

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

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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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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

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

Landesberg, Steve

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