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• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Writing, Simple, Judging

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• Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Brother, Twins, Accuracy

  "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

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• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  Edgar Cayce

  Reality, Loses

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• The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

  William Safire

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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• A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Running, Daughter

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• The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Knowing

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.44, Image

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• The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

  Pliny the Elder

  Country, Stars, Science

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• Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

  Sean Covey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Gratitude

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons

  Love, Integrity, Greatness

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• Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Lying, Vanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.111, Coyote Canyon Press

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Science, Men

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• LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sweet, Hurt, Peace

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• Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sight, Authenticity

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.258, A&C Black

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• There are no degrees of honesty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Degrees

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• Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Cowardice, Exactness

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, Accountability, Use

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• Honesty leads to peace.

  Veronica Roth

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Learning

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Motivation, Lying, Excuse

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspirational, Giving, World

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• Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

  Thomas Wolsey

  Way, Being Honest, Enjoy

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• Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

  Rutger Hauer

  Wall, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Lying, Be Careful, Careful

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• To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

  Criss Jami

  Courage, Humility, Weakness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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