Quotes about honesty

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

Allen, James on honesty
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"Do not do what you would undo if caught."

Arendt, Leah on honesty   

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

Ash, Mary Kay on honesty
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"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on honesty   

"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people."

Benson, Edward Frederic on honesty
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"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]"

Bible on honesty
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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 on honesty   

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

Blum, Leon on honesty   

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment."

Browne, Merry on honesty
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"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

Bryan, William Jennings on honesty   

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

Burns, George on honesty   

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."

Burns, Robert on honesty   

"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 on honesty
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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 on honesty   

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

Cayce, Edgar on honesty
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"They're only truly great who are truly good."

Chapman, George on honesty
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"Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."

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

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"A few honest men are better than numbers."

Cromwell, Oliver on honesty   

"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. on honesty   

"To live outside the law, you must be honest."

Dylan, Bob on honesty   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honesty   

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

Fielding, Henry on honesty
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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 on honesty
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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 on honesty   

"Honesty is the best policy."

Franklin, Benjamin on honesty
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Freud, Sigmund on honesty
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on honesty
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"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. on honesty   

"Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him."

Graham, Billy on honesty   

"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 on honesty
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"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending."

Henry, M. on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door."

Howard, Vernon on honesty   

"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 on honesty
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"Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do."

James, William on honesty
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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