Truth Honesty Quotes - Page 3

• Your best days are still out in front of you

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Stills, Fronts

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Ornaments, Needs

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Truth, Honest

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7592, e-artnow

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• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Honesty, Punishment

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.

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• Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Obsession, Intense

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

  Mark Van Doren

  Truth, Honesty, Taste

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

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• Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

  Tad Williams

  Honesty, Lying, Stronger

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, Success, Honesty

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• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Honesty, Good Life, Real

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

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

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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  Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

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• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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