Being Honest Quotes - Page 2

• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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• To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Forgiveness

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• Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

  Max Lucado

  God, Faith, Christian

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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• If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Spiritual, Fear

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.521, Bantam

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• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Baseball, Honesty

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• You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

  Drake

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Song: Lets Call It Off, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Love, Inspirational, Christian

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• The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 22, 2016

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Respect, Honesty, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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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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• The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 08, 2013

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• Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

  Kiran Desai

  Honesty, Fear, Writing

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• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Honesty, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  Benjamin Carson

  Truth, Honesty, Worry

  "Ben Carson Says Honesty Is More Important Than Political Experience" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 6, 2015.

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Business

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• I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

  Brad Pitt

  Hard Times, Important, Littles

  "Meet Brad Pitt: Actor talks traps, perfection, and honesty". "Showbiz Today" with Laurin Sydney, www.cnn.com. November 13, 1998.

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan 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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