Honesty Quotes - Page 67

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.

If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.

Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Honesty leads to peace.