Honesty Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

  George Edward Moore

  Pain, Needs, No Pain

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

  Don DeLillo

  Inherent, Ifs, Amount

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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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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