Honesty

(466 votes)   Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(328 votes)   Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Leah Arendt

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(326 votes)   No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940, American Writer

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(302 votes)   Do you want the truth? Or the little white lie that makes you happy

Anonymous

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(301 votes)   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.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(293 votes)   It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(263 votes)   Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(231 votes)   I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, ''If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.''

Tim Robbins
1958-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer

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(222 votes)   When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Clark Moustakas
Humanistic Psychologist

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(217 votes)   If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(215 votes)   There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(198 votes)   Disingenuous is the most honest word I know!

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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(195 votes)   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.

Ken Keyes Jr.
1921-1995, American Author

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(177 votes)   Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman
American Businessman

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(174 votes)   There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

John F. Dodge

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