Quotes about honesty

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

Kant, Immanuel on honesty   

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

Landesberg, Steve on honesty
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"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."

Lyly, John on honesty
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"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"

Madwed, Sidney on honesty   

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

Mamet, David on honesty   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"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 honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity."

Marquis, Don on honesty   

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

Marquis, Don on honesty   

"There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked."

Marx, Groucho on honesty
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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 on honesty   

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

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

Needham, Richard J. on honesty   

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

Otway, Thomas on honesty   

"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."

Ovid on honesty   

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

Ovid on honesty   

"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors."

Peguy, Charles on honesty   

"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."

Plato on honesty   

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

Pope, Alexander on honesty
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"Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat."

Proverb, French on honesty   

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

Proverb, Scottish on honesty   

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter on honesty   

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Richelieu, Cardinal De on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

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

Ruskin, John on honesty
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"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on honesty   

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

Shakespeare, William on honesty   

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

Shakespeare, William on honesty
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"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

Shaw, George Bernard on honesty   

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

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

Stephen, Leslie on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"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 on honesty   

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on honesty
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"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it."

Twain, Mark on honesty
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