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Do not do what you would undo if caught.
~ Leah Arendt ~
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 ~
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
~ Merry Browne ~
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns ~
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
~ Robert Burns ~
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
~ Sigmund Freud ~
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 ~
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 ~
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
~ Steve Landesberg ~
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 ~
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
~ Groucho Marx ~
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
~ Ed Mcmahon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
~ Plato ~
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 ~
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
~ Leslie Stephen ~
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
~ Mark Twain ~
An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
~ 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 ~
You can't make wrong work.
~ Gerald Waterhouse ~
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