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Inspirational Quotes About Honesty

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Index_card_top “My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.”
 
Toni Cade Bambara (born 1939);
Writer


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Index_card_top “In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.”
 
Claire Booth Luce (1903-1987);
Playwright, Editor, Social Activist


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Index_card_top “Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
 
Robert Burns (1175-1796);
Poet


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Index_card_top “Honor lies in honest toil.”
 
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908);
22nd U.S. President, 24th U.S. President


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Index_card_top “It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
 
Noel Coward (1899-1973);
Playwright, Composer, Actor


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Index_card_top “An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”
 
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616);
Novelist, Poet


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Index_card_top “We all need to know what it means to be honest. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
 
James E. Faust (1920-2007);
Clergyman


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Index_card_top “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
 
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939);
Founder Of Psychoanalytic School Of Psychology
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Index_card_top “Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.”
 
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661);
Clergyman, Writer
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Index_card_top “Lying can never save us from another lie.”
 
Vaclav Havel (born 1936);
Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic
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Index_card_top “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 (1804-1864);
Writer
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Index_card_top “Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.”
 
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899);
Orator, Attorney, Politician
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Index_card_top “It is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
 
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826);
3rd U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
 
Spencer Johnson - Motivational Author


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Index_card_top “You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.”
 
Walter Lippman (1889-1074);
American Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist


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Index_card_top “The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and where these principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.”
 
Herman Melville (1819-1891);
Novelist, Poet
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Index_card_top “Slander cannot destroy an honest man when the flood recedes the rock is there.”
 
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Index_card_top “Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
 
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Index_card_top “An honest man nearly always thinks justly.”
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778);
Philosopher


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Index_card_top “To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
 
John Ruskin (1819-1900);
Poet, Writer, Art Critic
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Index_card_top “I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.”
 
Rachel Joy Scott (1981-1999);
Student, First Victim Of The Columbine High School Massacre
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Index_card_top “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top “The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
 
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950);
Playwright, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.”
 
Robert South (1634-1716);
Clergyman
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Index_card_top “To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.”
 
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894);
Essayist, Poet, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.”
 
Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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Index_card_top “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 (1732-1799);
1st U.S. President
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Index_card_top “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
 
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941);
Author
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Index_card_top “The truth is more important than the facts.”
 
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1909);
Architect
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Index_card_top “Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
 
Brigham Young (1801-1877);
2nd President Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints


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Index_card_top “An honest heart possesses a kingdom.”
 
Seneca (4-65);
Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.”
 
Confucius (551-479);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
 
Socrates (469-399);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.”
 
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Index_card_top “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
 
Aristotle (384-322);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
 
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662);
Mathematician, Physicist, Religious Philosopher
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