Honest Quotes - Page 32

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Be prepared and be honest.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Good thoughts bear good fruit.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.