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Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue ...
Honesty is all you need.
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
Alas, respect for the truth compels perfect honesty
We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others.
You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own.
Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.
honestly--then dishonestly.
Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).
Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,
all in one.
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos ...
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Honesty is very sexy.
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
I'm always honest.
Honesty does not mean saying all we think or feel. Many of our thoughts and feelings are only with us for a minute. They are not always the truth.
Honesty ... is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it ... there can be no trust. Widespread lying destroys the fabric of democratic societies, in which the necessary assumption is that people mostly tell the truth.
Honesty is never wrong.
I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.
Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.
Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel ... they would surely treat each other differently
One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.
Honesty in small things is not a small thing.
Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.
Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)
I am not honest.
Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed
I'm always going for truth and honesty.
An honest heart loves the Truth.
Honesty is the best insurance policy.
Honesty can be a dirty gift.
I'm the voice of honesty.
Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Be true to your words
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.
Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.
Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
It's hard to be honest with other people when you're hardly honest with yourself.
Human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.
People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.
The more honest I try to be, the more the right words recede into the distance.
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.
Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...
Be not spendthrift of your honesty, But keep it to yourself
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
Truth telling is an investment we must make in relationships - whether personal or professional. It takes a lot of time and thought, and sometimes, courage. However, there is probably not another investment of time that pays a greater dividend when done well.
There's more to honesty than ... than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor -
Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.
I don't have much to say about honesty. All that I feel about it that people don't discuss as far as I know is how much effort it is to create truly honest writing, in my opinion. It requires a lot of thinking and effort.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
Honesty is the essence of every successful relationship.
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
Honesty leads to peace.
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
Always tell the truth, good or bad, but never when it's unnecessary.
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself - that, my friend, is very hard to do.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
The honesty part, which is, of course, the most vital and important part.
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
Honesty's the best policy.
The good thing is that I'm always honest.
I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.
Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.
A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.
Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
Honesty scares quite a lot of people.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
People are most honest
when they don't know you are listening.
I try to tell the truth.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is admired, and starves.
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.
I like honesty more than my ego does.
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
Honesty is the best policy anyone need".
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.