HONESTY

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Leah Arendt

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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

Do you want the truth? Or the little white lie that makes you happy
Anonymous

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

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

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.''
Tim Robbins

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

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

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

Disingenuous is the most honest word I know!
Carl Stoynoff

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 Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham

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

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

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

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

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

The truth is sustainable! A lie is unsustainable, and is eventually exposed through Time. A lie can't 'Face' the truth because of guilt and the liar will try to detached them-self through avoidance.
Carl Stoynoff

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan

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

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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.
Charles Peguy

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

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta f***' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one.
Bob Marley

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

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

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

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta f***' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one.
Bob Marley

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]
Bible

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

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
French Proverbs

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.
Source Unknown

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

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

You can't make wrong work.
Gerald Waterhouse

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Half a truth is a whole lie
Kazi Shams

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.
M. Henry

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

There is no right way to do something wrong.
Source Unknown