Honesty Quotes - Page 7

• It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Public Opinion, World

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.310, University of Missouri Press

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty
  Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

  Russell Simmons

  Self, Development, Kind

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Libel, Slander

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Humorous

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Father Son

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Army, Men, Soldier

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1285, Library of Alexandria

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Patriotic, Faithful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Creative, Soul

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• Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

  George Saunders

  Irony, Honest, Volume

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• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Knaves, Easy

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Truth, Law, Indulge In

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity”, p.545, Courier Corporation

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• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Truth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

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• I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Used, Form

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• He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mean, May, Faults

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• Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

  Ang Lee

  Issues, Being Honest, Sexuality

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• In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

  Vera Nazarian

  Heart, Dark, Glasses

  "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration: Old Wisdom for a New World". Book by Vera Nazarian, 2010.

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• Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
  There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Simplicity, Dignity

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• Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

  Hugh Prather

  Stupid, Moving, Humble

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.46, Conari Press

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Lying, Two

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Ethics, Deviation

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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