Honesty Quotes - Page 35

• Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morality, Interest, Code

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.541, Princeton University Press

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• How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

  Robin Williams

  Heart, Who I Am, Giving

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• We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Real, People, Humanity

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

  Cindy McCain

  Mean, Secret, Criticism

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

  N. T. Wright

  Hats, Tradition, Relentless

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Fall, Bigs, Deals

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• Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Powerful, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.42

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• It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Easier, Ends, Deals

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Civilization, Community

  "Love and Mr Lewisham". Book by H. G. Wells, Chapter 23, 1899.

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• Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mean, Where You Are, Circumstances

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• Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

  Cher

  Powerful, World, Difficult

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

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• People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

  Kinky Friedman

  People, Want, Politician

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• Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

  Peter Yarrow

  Hurt, Past, Realizing

  "Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72". www.cnn.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Stick to the honesty and never leave it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sticks

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• The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made.

  Groucho Marx

  Two, Fake, Important

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• If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creating, Corporations, Working Conditions

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be. Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Girl, Being Yourself, Strong

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• Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Trust Honesty, Values

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• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Blessing, Light

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• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  Randeep Hooda

  Two, Long, People

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• Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

  August Sander

  People, Speak, Let Me

  August Sander (1976). “August Sander, 1876-l976”

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• Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

  Zac Efron

  Important, Young, Difficult

  "Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Imogen Poots and Tom Gormican Talk THAT AKWARD MOMENT, Planking, The So, Relationship Deal Breakers, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. January 31, 2014.

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