Honesty Quotes - Page 8

• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Ethics, Being Honest, Dare

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

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• Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Fake, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• Who is the honest man?
  He that doth still and strongly good pursue
  To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
  Whom neither force nor fawning can
  Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

  George Herbert

  Men, Giving, Neighbor

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.69

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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, Cocky

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• Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

  Ruth McKenney

  Inspirational, Positive, Truth

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

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• It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Yield, Principles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Writing

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

  John Ruskin

  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Courage, Life And Love

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• Integrity gains strength by use.

  John Tillotson

  Integrity, Use, Gains

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• 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

  Motivational, Teamwork, Believe

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• It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Real, Creativity

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Hate, Common Decency

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• Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

  Mike Tyson

  Respect, Kindness, Law Of Attraction

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Business, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Men, Self, Pity

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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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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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Lying, People, Deception

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Education, Truth, Math

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Ornaments, Needs, Disguise

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”

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• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  Ovid

  Sorry, Men, Being Honest

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• Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Literature, Conditions

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• When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

  Pamela Ribon

  Silence, Needs, Minutes

  Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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