Honest Quotes - Page 16

• To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does...When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right...Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Trust, Honesty, Integrity

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• I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.

  Sybille Bedford

  Honesty, Generous Spirit, Oil

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• There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.

  Russell Cornell Leffingwell

  Children, Honesty, Freedom

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• Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Honesty, Work, Men

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

  Lester Maddox

  Honesty, Business, Should

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• Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

  John Winthrop

  Honesty, Liberty, Authority

  John Winthrop (1853). “The History of New England from 1630 to 1649”, p.281

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• She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Honesty, Husband, Eye

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• If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Honesty, Heart, Knowing God

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• My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Time, Honesty, Philosophy

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• About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

  Arthur Baer

  Honesty, Heart, Player

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

  Albert E. Bowen

  Honesty, Lying, Law

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• Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

  William Grant Bangerter

  Witty, Honesty, Character

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• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Believe, Reality

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

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• It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hurt, Moving, Self

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• True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

  David O. McKay

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Self, Discipline

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

  Marla Runyan

  Running, Real, Distance

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Pirate

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• Okay I'll be honest girl I can't lie I miss you.

  Drake

  Girl, Lying, Missing

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• Honest people have no ethics

  Sam DeCavalcante

  People, Ethics, Mobster

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• Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Thinking, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Character, Criticism, Helping

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