Famous Quotes about Honesty (92 Quotations)

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

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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

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.

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.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

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.

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

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.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

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

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

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

They're only truly great who are truly good.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

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.