Honesty Quotes

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Honesty Quotes:
"Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough." - Greta Garbo

"The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth." - James Allen

"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

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." - Arthur C. Clarke

"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy." - Robert E. Lee

Honesty Quotes:
"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." - Mary MacCracken

"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby." - George Herbert

"Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there." - Chinese Proverb

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
- Walter Anderson

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

Honesty Quotes:
"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment." - Merry Browne

"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

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"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 Unknown

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

Honesty Quotes:
"If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to." - Proverb

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

"Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships." - Author Unknown

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." - Winston Churchill

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow

Honesty Quotes:
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates

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

"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion." - Samuel Johnson

"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble." - Hugh Prather

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

Honesty Quotes:
"What is uttered from the heart alone,
Will win the hearts of others to your own."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an 'Honest Man'." - George Washington

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