Honesty Quotes - Page 24

• Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

  Flora Thompson

  Lost, Said, Strict

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.215, David R. Godine Publisher

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• When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

  Frances Osborne

  Eye, Guilt, Quality

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• Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

  Howard Behar

  Want, Who We Are, Clarity

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Self, America, People

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

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• I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.

  Russell Means

  People, Feelings, Doe

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• Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

  Norman Mailer

  Habit, Sturdy, Prevarication

  Norman Mailer (2007). “The Castle in the Forest”

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• When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

  Kevin Bacon

  Children, Integrity, Home

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• When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

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• I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

  Jack Whitehall

  Thinking, People, Hiding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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• Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

  Charlie Cox

  Real, People, Like You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Crush, Men, Power

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• The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

  Ted Malloch

  Long, Excellence, Virtue

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ignorance, Doe, Humans

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

  Keri Hilson

  Honest, Being Honest

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• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  Adam DeVine

  Mother, Uncles, Lying

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

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• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  Brian Blessed

  Kindness, Adventure, Compassion

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  John Cullum

  Father, Businessman, Discussion

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, May

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Successful, Men

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Liars, Devil, Dishonesty

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• There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive.

  Robert Greene

  Gratitude, Envy, Favors

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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• In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

  J. I. Packer

  Cost, Facts, Common

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.81, InterVarsity Press

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• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  Edgar Meyer

  Titles, Embarrassment

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• The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

  Laura Linney

  Honest, Core

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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