Inspirations

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

- Georg C Lichtenberg

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

- Socrates

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

- James Allen

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

- Leah Arendt

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Edward Frederic Benson

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

- Leviticus 19:11, Bible

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.

- Josh Billings

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

- Christian Nevell Bovee

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

- Robert Burns

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.

- Leo Buscaglia

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Edgar Cayce

They're only truly great who are truly good.

- George Chapman

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain, the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

- Chilo

A few honest men are better than numbers.

- Oliver Cromwell

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

- John F Dodge

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henry Fielding

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

- David Harold Fink

Honesty is the best policy.

- Benjamin Franklin

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

- Sigmund Freud

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

- A P Gouthey

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Billy Graham

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.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

- Napoleon Hill

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.

- Sam Houston

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

- Vernon Howard

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.

- Lee Iacocca

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

- William James

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

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.

- Ken Keyes Junior

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

- John Lyly

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

- Sidney Madwed

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

- David Mamet

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Don Marquis

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

- Ed Mcmahon

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

- Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

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.

- Clark Moustakas

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.

- Henri Nouwen

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

- Alexander Pope

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

- Sir Walter Raleigh

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

- John Ruskin

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

- William Shakespeare

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

- Sophocles

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.

- Joseph Sugarman

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

- Source Unknown

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

There is no right way to do something wrong.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

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.

- George Washington

Be prepared and be honest.

- John Wooden

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Brigham Young

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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

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

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

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

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.

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain, the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

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.

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

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

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Honesty is the best policy.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

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.

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.

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.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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.

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

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

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.

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

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

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

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

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.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

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

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.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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

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

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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.

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

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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.

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.

Be prepared and be honest.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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