Honesty Quotes - Page 34

• You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

  Ameen Rihani

  Teacher, Tolerance, Deeds

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• In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

  Tom Ford

  Adults, Ends, Enormous

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• A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Heart, Mind, Example

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• Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Player, Thinking, Symphony

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• All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Giving, Justice

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

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• Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

  Pope Gregory I

  Men, Fire, Done

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• Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Past, Four, Sensitivity

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• Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.

  Joo

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.

  Ann Douglas

  Religious, Duplicity, Generations

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• Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.

  Midori Goto

  Humility, Acceptance, Compassion

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• Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

  Brian Boyd

  Integrity, Opportunity, People

  Brian Boyd (2013). “Social Media for the Executive”, p.16, One Seed Press

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• An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

  Giles Foden

  Determination, Book, Important

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• Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are
  actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price
  for compromising on this honesty - and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission
  in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self - this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our 'soul' purpose is our sole purpose in life.

  Kristiane Backer

  Running, Spiritual, Lying

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• Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Fire, Light

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• In all honesty, as you grow older, you understand how important it is to give everything in every workout, training session and match. When you're younger, you think game and practice are different. The sooner you understand they aren't, the better.

  Jozy Altidore

  Workout, Thinking, Practice

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

  George Edward Moore

  Pain, Needs, No Pain

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• If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Light, People

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• There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Order, Sobriety

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• Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

  Leo Baeck

  Genuine, Scholarly

  Leo Baeck (1950). “The interrelations of Judaism, science, philosophy and ethics: Judaism, the Jew and The State of Israel”

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• It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, Affection, Language

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• The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Loyalty, Country, Responsibility

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• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  J. G. Ballard

  Movement, Painting, Baudelaire

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• Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

  J. G. Ballard

  Modern, Mark, Absolutes

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• For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Memories, Integrity, Simple

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• Where I could not be honest,
  I never yet was valiant.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Being Honest, Valiant

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.262

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