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Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
, businessman
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
, actress
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
, architect
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
, poet
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
, psychologist
He that jokes confesses.
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
, politician
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
, politician
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
, poet
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
, leader
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
, royalty
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
, musician
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
, author
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
, actor
Honesty is the best policy.
, politician
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
, philosopher
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
, author
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
, writer
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
, poet
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
, novelist
Confessed faults are half-mended.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
, president
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
, writer
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
, writer
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
, dramatist
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
, comedian
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
, philosopher
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
, poet
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
, writer
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
, writer
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
, comedian
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
, philosopher
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
, author
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
, cartoonist
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
, philosopher
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
, dramatist
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
, actress
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
, actress
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
, writer
Open confession is good for the soul.
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
, author
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
, celebrity
I always tell it like it is is the long way of saying, I'm a jerk.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
, poet
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
, writer
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
, dramatist
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
, novelist
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
, author
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
, philosopher
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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People who talk much say nothing.
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There is no right way to do something wrong.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
, dramatist
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
, actress
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
, philosopher
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
, historian
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
, poet
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
, poet
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
, philosopher
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
, philosopher
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
, author
A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.
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He who denies all, confesses all.
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An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
, philosopher
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
, actress
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
, actor
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
, poet
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
, activist
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
, businesswoman
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
, lawyer
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
, comedian
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
, poet
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
, clergyman
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
, poet
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
, author
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
, writer
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
, comedian
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
, author
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
, president
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
, comedian
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
, model
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
, historian
A few honest men are better than numbers.
, soldier
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
, poet
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
, poet
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
, musician
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
, dramatist
Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
, poet
Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
, writer
Be prepared and be honest.
, coach
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
, writer
Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
, novelist
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
, comedian
I've never been crazy. I'm a very good girl, to be honest. I don't do anything to hurt anybody.
, actress
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
, dramatist
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
, comedian
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
, comedian
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
, dramatist
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
, author
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
, poet
An honest man is always a child.
, philosopher
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
, politician
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.
, writer
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
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Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
, critic
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
, musician
You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
, politician
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
, celebrity
No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
, clergyman
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
, musician
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
, author
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
, model
Волк в ове́чьей шку́ре.
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Do not do what you would undo if caught.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
, poet
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
, comedian
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
, politician
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
, author
In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.
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Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
, statesman
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
, poet
Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
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There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
, critic
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.
, writer
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
, politician
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
, businessman
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
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Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
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There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
, writer
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