Honesty Quotes - Page 25

• Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

  Paul Auster

  People, Resentment, Wonderful

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.

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• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Men, Hands

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

  Miley Cyrus

  Real, Artist, Fake

  "'I've never been that person to fake it,' says Miley Cyrus". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will always get lots of people thinking you're a jerk. But there are people who appreciate total honesty and questioning of the conformities in our society, and I'm heroic to those people. And I should be. It's an indictment of the rest of society who doesn't get that.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Bullshit, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

  Chris Patten

  Winning, People, Leader

  "Interviews With Michael Bloomberg, Madeleine Albright". "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

  John H. McWhorter

  Children, Behave, Treated

  John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

  Amanda Hocking

  Book, Self, House

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• Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

  Will Rogers

  Men, World, Shrewdness

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

  Merle Haggard

  World, Likes, Commodity

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• The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Character, Males, Female

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• My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

  Lucy Walker

  Journey, Long, People

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

  M. Scott Peck

  Skills, People, Empathy

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• I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Wells, Has Beens, Paid

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• You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Integrity, America, People

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• My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Life Changing, Kind, Efficiency

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• No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

  Charles Comiskey

  Jail, Natural Instinct, Form

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• Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

  James Altucher

  Mistake, Way

  "0 Ways To Stop Feeling Like A Failure". www.businessinsider.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

  James Altucher

  People, Ego, Helping

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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Years, Fiction, Stories

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• Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

  Steve Aylett

  Voice, Matter, Acceptable

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• Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Would Be, Reputation, Moral

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• Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

  John Gokongwei

  People, Creative, Important

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• Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Honor, Art Is

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• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Truth, Military

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

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• Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

  John Ciardi

  Temptation, Ability

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