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Quotes About Honesty

Lie to yourself if you want, but you're not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn't really want it.
~ Steve Maraboli
Be as advertised.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
Your sincere and honest effort only, shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!! - Adbhut
~ Santosh Adbhut Kumar
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.
~ Anthony Volodkin
Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you're about.
~ Steve Maraboli
When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.
~ Joseph C. Kunz, Jr.
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say
~ William Shakespeare
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
~ Tonya Hurley
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
~ James W. Loewen
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
~ James A. Baldwin
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
~ Billy Corgan
I wasn't a very good teacher.
~ Amos Lee
Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.
~ Larisa Kuznetsova
Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.' 'An omelette?' 'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Il compromesso è considerato come una mancanza di integrità, di dirittura morale, di consistenza, di onestà. Il compromesso puzza, è disonesto. Non nel mio vocabolario. Nel mio mondo, la parola compromesso è sinonimo di vita. E dove c'è vita ci sono compromessi. Il contrario di compromesso non è integrità e nemmeno idealismo e nemmeno determinazione o devozione. Il contrario di compromesso è fanatismo.
~ Amos Oz
Feiten zijn volgens mij vaak de ergste vijanden van de waarheid.
~ Amos Oz
Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)
~ Amos Oz
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
~ Amy Hempel
For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.
~ Amy Hempel
I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.
~ Amy Hempel
But then again a good person doesn't cheat, doesn't fuck around for sport. Good and bad, though, aren't mutually exclusive are they? At least she didn't, Laney rationalizes, at least she didn't pretend that what she had with John, with any of the men, was more than it was. Didn't fool herself into thinking she had any jurisdiction over their freedom. That the fucking had anything to do with
~ Amy Koppelman