Honesty Quotes
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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.
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I like stability in a man, honesty, and security about who you are and what you think of yourself.
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Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
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They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.
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Even at the cost of what is called honor and honesty? That is comfortable philosophy, and having preached and practiced it all my days I've no right to condemn it. But the saints would call it sinful and dangerous and tell you that life should be one long penance full of sorrow, sacrifice and psalm-singing.
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Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.
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Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.
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It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
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All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
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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.
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I don't like people lying; I like honesty.
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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.
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Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
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Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
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For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
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Integrity gains strength by use.
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
