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Quotes About Honesty

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.
~ Lena Dunham
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
~ Mallory Ortberg
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
~ Mark Ruffalo
I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.
~ Marlo Morgan
My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.
~ Martha Beck
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.
~ Matt Charman
If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.
~ Matt Gonzalez
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
~ Maya Angelou
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
~ Maya Angelou
I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.
~ Michel Ocelot
Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.
~ Mike Aquilina
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
~ Mike Rowe
I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
~ Nat Hentoff
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
~ Neil Gaiman
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
~ R. A. Salvatore
Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.
~ Reba McEntire
Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.
~ Rick Riordan
It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying
~ Ron Suskind
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
~ Seth Godin
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
~ Sophocles