Honesty Quotes - Page 21

• It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.

  Anthony Trollope

  Hands, Doe, Prison

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister”, p.103, Booklassic

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• Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Men, Knowing

  'Phineas Finn' (1869) ch. 50

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Atheism, Kind

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• I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Responsibility, Power, Opportunity

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Responsibility, Power

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mean, Computer, Scales

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• I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

  Scott Kahn

  Language, Paint, Admire

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• Integrity is the core of our character.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Courage, Integrity, Character

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• The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

  Philip Moeller

  Truth Is, Dangerous

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• I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

  Mark Driscoll

  Heart, Study, Praying

  "Pastor Mark Packs 'em In". The Seattle Times, November 30, 2003.

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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Hopeful, Intellectual, Age

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Long, Independence

  Alexander Pope (1776). “Works”, p.128

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• For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

  Arthur Ransome

  Book, Men, Lakes

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rama, Coal, World

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• Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Atheism, Littles, Way

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Actors, Film, Aspiration

  Source: collider.com

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• If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Demand, One Thing

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.

  Tom Brady

  Integrity, Athlete, Thinking

  Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Temperature, Absurd, Absolutes

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Writing, Political

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Issues, Details

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• Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Cities, Strategy, Policy

  "The Mad Man". Book by Samuel R. Delany, 1994.

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• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mistake, Responsibility, People

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• Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

  Gore Verbinski

  Philosophy, Thinking, Trying

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