Candor Quotes

• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

  Peggy Noonan

  Friendship, True Friend, Communication

  "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

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• In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, World, Lasts

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

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• If you reward candor, you'll get it.

  Jack Welch

  Rewards, Ifs

  "Jack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace". "Jack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace" by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfect, May, Faults

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  Alexander Haig

  Truth, Loss, Reality

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• Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Criticism, Sincerity, Gems

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• Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Truth, Honest

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7592, e-artnow

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• Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Gentleman

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

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• Honesty is always the best policy.

  George Washington

  Honesty, Supposing That, Openness

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.46, New York : J. Wiley

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  E. V. Lucas

  Diplomacy

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• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  Tacitus

  Generosity, Ruins, Moderation

  "Quote Junkie: Greek and Roman : An Interesting Collection of Quotes from the Greatest Greek and Roman Philosophers and Leaders". Book edited by the Hagopian Institute, p. 62, 2008.

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• It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

  Russell Lynes

  Honesty, Accepting, Polite

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Speak, Shame

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• Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hypocrisy, Accountability, Political

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Gracious

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• In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, President, Instinct

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

  William James

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Quality

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• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Mind, Wish

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

  James Bovard

  People, Age, President

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

  William Blake

  Truth, Men, Speak Your Mind

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Doing Nothing, Way

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confused, Worship, Sincerity

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