Cheating Quotes

• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Integrity, May

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.

  Esther Perel

  Emotional, Years, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

  Greg Behrendt

  Betrayal, Betrayal Of Trust

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Truth

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• If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

  Ann Landers

  Wisdom, Cheater, Men

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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  Sophocles

  Life, Failure, Winning

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Truth

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Husband And Wife, Infidelity

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• The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, People

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• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Heartbreak, Loss

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• Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

  Kim Cattrall

  Dog, Men, Balls

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• A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Women, Infidelity

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Self, Firsts

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, People, Deceit

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• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Philosophy, Thinking

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• When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

  Jamie Carragher

  Champions League, Stakes, Opposition

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• CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

  Jay Leno

  Strong Women, Husband, Successful

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• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Satisfaction, Life Is

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

  Al Goldstein

  Choices, Easy

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• You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Athlete, Worst Nightmares

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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Pain, Character

  Samuel Johnson (1752). “The Rambler”, p.79

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• Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

  William Blake

  Infidelity, Mischief

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.15, Routledge

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• It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

  Uma Thurman

  Relationship, Doe, Toilets

  Interview with Laura Yorke in "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.

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• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Learning, Entrepreneur

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