Being Honest Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

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

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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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• 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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• Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves. My experience is that by practicing without 'shoulds,' we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body.

  Pema Chodron

  Responsibility, Unique, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.182, Shambhala Publications

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• I would hate the thought of dying full stop; Ive got to be honest with you.

  Craig Fairbrass

  Hate, Dying, Honest

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• I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Nice, Thinking, Hollywood

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• To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

  Mike Comrie

  Honest, Reason, Has Beens

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• I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

  Suresh Raina

  Senior, Father, Needs

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• Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around, so they don't ask again. And let's be honest here, people. English is not a doctor's first language.

  Erma Bombeck

  Stupid, Doctors, Talking

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• It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Pain, Knaves

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Literature, Honest, Difficult

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Real, Nice

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.32, Random House

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Men, Roots, Honest

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• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

  Horace Mann

  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Trying, Honest

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Honest, Amount

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the same job for thirty years they say "No!" The ultimate cliché, 'Variety is the spice of life', is sadly true.

  Doc Brown

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

  Kate Moss

  Trying, Normal, Honest

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Giving, Honest

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• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Thinking, Phones, Talking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 21 Nov. 1997

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