Honesty Quotes - Page 30

• If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

  Donald Miller

  Mean, Keys, Perfect

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Cash, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

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• One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Illusion, Reason

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• The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Views, Age, Public Opinion

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• A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
  of others.

  Albert Pike

  Integrity, Heart, Men

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Goodness, Results, Honorable

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• To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Mother, Brother

  "Pope Francis Takes On Mafia, Corruption In Naples" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2015.

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• Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

  William McKinley

  Employment, Capacity, Indispensable

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.290, tredition

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• The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Health, Giving, Fairness

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• Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

  John Michael Hayes

  Cat, Missing, France

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• I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Believe, Needs, Alex

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• MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Unexpected, Surprise

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• We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Independence, Income

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Thinking, Wind, Knowing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

  Brian Regan

  People, Laughing, Fake

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• A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Imagination

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• Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

  Michael J. Fox

  Choices, Kind, Situation

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

  Ezra Miller

  Odds, Personal Opinions, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a mom has been the greatest job of my life. I am so proud of the people my children are. I can't really say why they've turned out so well. I think there's an enormous amount of honesty and communication in our home. I always tell my kids they can tell me anything and I will never judge them. Consequently, they do!

  Lois Robbins

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Character, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

  George Lopez

  Father, Golf, Discipline

  "An Interview with George Lopez, Host of The Bob Hope Dessert Golf Classic for 2007". Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Christina Aguilera Interview, Burlesque". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2010.

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• If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off.

  George Carlin

  Pie, America, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Real, Views, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

  Frank Sinatra

  Believe, Humility, Want

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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