Honest Man Quotes

• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
  of others.

  Albert Pike

  Honesty, Integrity, Heart

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Honesty, Character, Men

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

  Johnny Depp

  Trust, Men, Watches

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• The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Real, Men, Honest

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by Armistead Lindsay Long, 1886.

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Lying, Animal

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• 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

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An honest man's the noblest work of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Character, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 248 (1734)

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• The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

  Joseph Sobran

  Hypocrite, Men, Enemy

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• We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Pain, Freedom

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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• An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Rogues, Sides

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.30

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• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Inspiration

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• A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Men, Race

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Men, Mind

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• You can't cheat an honest man.

  W. C. Fields

  Truth, Honesty, Wine

  Title of motion picture (1939).

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

  Abigail Adams

  Real, Men, Moral

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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• If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Desire

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.385

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• I am looking for an honest man.

  Diogenes

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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• The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Men, Voting

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