Honest Living Quotes

• The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

  Eldred G. Smith

  Long, Honest, Study

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

  James E. Faust

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

  Richard Codey

  Men, Able, Honest

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• You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Men, Letters

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.713, e-artnow

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• Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Athlete, Thinking, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

  Varg Vikernes

  Ambition, Musical, Honest

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever, and get home, and then still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.

  Howard Dean

  Children, Home, Kids

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2005.

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• I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Time, People

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