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Quotes About Honesty

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.
~ Don Winslow
What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.
~ Don Winslow
Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.
~ Donald Barthelme
a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty
~ Donald E. Westlake
Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.
~ Donald L. Hicks
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
~ Shonda Rhimes
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
~ Paul Wellstone
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
~ Hugh Prather
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
~ Horace Greeley
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
~ Dorothy Day
I will have no locked cupboards in my life.
~ Gertrude Bell
The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.
~ Snoop Dogg
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
~ Philip Roth
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
~ Andrew Johnson
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
~ Warren Buffett
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
~ Bowe Bergdahl
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
~ Dale Murphy
I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.
~ J. P. Morgan
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
~ Paula Abdul