Quote: 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. Author: Joseph Sugarman American Businessman
Quote: 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. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Honesty shines like a light through your eyes. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.'' Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There is no right way to do something wrong. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
Quote: You can't make wrong work. Author: Gerald Waterhouse
Quote: Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Author: Richard Whately 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer
Quote: Be prepared and be honest. Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Honest hearts produce honest actions. Author: Brigham Young 1801-1877, American Mormon Leader
Quote: Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: Do not do what you would undo if caught. Author: Leah Arendt
Quote: Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. Author: Mary Kay Ash American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
Quote: Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. Author: Stephen Vincent Benet 1989-1943, American Novelist, Poet
Quote: How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. Author: Edward Frederic Benson 1867-1940, American Author
Quote: You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Author: Leon Blum 1872-1950, French Statesman and Prime Minister
Quote: Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Author: Merry Browne
Quote: No one can earn a million dollars honestly. Author: William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925, American Lawyer, Politician
Quote: You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. Author: George Burns 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor
Quote: Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Author: Robert Burns 1759-1796, Scottish Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
Quote: Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. Author: Edgar Cayce 1877-1945, American Psychic Medium
Quote: They're only truly great who are truly good. Author: George Chapman 1557-1634, British Dramatist, Translator, Poet
Quote: Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. Author: Chilo 560 BC, Greek Sage
Quote: It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: A few honest men are better than numbers. Author: Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England
Quote: There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. Author: John F. Dodge
Quote: To live outside the law, you must be honest. Author: Bob Dylan 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: 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. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses. Author: David Harold Fink
Quote: No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940, American Writer
Quote: Honesty is the best policy. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: A. P. Gouthey
Quote: Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. Author: Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist
Quote: 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. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: 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. Author: M. Henry
Quote: 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. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: 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. Author: Sam Houston 1793-1863, American Soldier, Statesman
Quote: Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker
Quote: 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. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
Quote: Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Author: Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, German Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Ken Keyes Jr. 1921-1995, American Author
Quote: Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. Author: Steve Landesberg
Quote: The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. Author: John Lyly c.1554-1606, British Writer
Quote: Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? Author: Sidney Madwed American Speaker, Consultant, Author, Poet
Quote: People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. Author: David Mamet 1947-, American Playwright
Quote: 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. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: 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. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked. Author: Groucho Marx 1895-1977, American Comic Actor
Quote: Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. Author: Ed Mcmahon American TV Host
Quote: If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. Author: Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau 1749-1791, French Revolutionary Politician, Orator
Quote: No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Clark Moustakas Humanistic Psychologist
Quote: People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. Author: Richard J. Needham
Quote: 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. Author: Henri Nouwen Christian Author
Quote: Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. Author: Thomas Otway 1652-1685, British Dramatist
Quote: A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Peguy 1873-1914, French Poet, Philosopher
Quote: Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: An honest man's the noblest work of God. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Cardinal De Richelieu 1585-1642, French Statesman
Quote: 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.'' Author: Tim Robbins 1958-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer
Quote: To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet