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Quotes About Honesty

But there is no one but us. There never has been. There have been generations which remembered, and generations which forgot; there has never been a generation of whole men and women who lived well for even one day. Yet some have imagined well, with honesty and art, the detail of such a life, and have described it with such grace, that we mistake vision for history, dream for description, and fancy that life has devolved.
~ Annie Dillard
An honest work generates its own power; a dishonest work tries to rob power from the cataracts of the given.
~ Annie Dillard
More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.
~ Scott Westerfeld
You don't look very happy. Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. It's been a long night. That's all. He smiled back. Don't worry, it won't last forever.
~ Scott Westerfeld
This is the war too, and you have to look straight at it, I told myself. You have to look straight at all of it or you have no business being here at all.
~ Sebastian Junger
scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life.
~ Sebastian Junger
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
~ Seth Godin
Write like you talk. Often.
~ Seth Godin
All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.
~ Seth Godin
Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread.
~ Seth Godin
A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them. If you had this skill, what an asset you would be to any organization.
~ Seth Godin
Contenerse es casi como robar.» Neil Young
~ Seth Godin
If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.
~ Seth Godin
Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread. Marketers offer solutions, opportunities for humans to solve their problems and move forward.
~ Seth Godin
dac? nu e?ti dispus s? ai empatie pentru ideile persoanei pe care vrei s-o serve?ti, e ca ?i cum ai fura.
~ Seth Godin
A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them.
~ Seth Godin
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
~ Shakespeare
You prefer thieving to honest work?" "Honest work? How much do you pay your maids annually? Six pounds? Eight? I can make that in a month—in a night, if all goes well. I could make more than that as a beggar. Why do you think so many take to the streets, begging? Because honest work is hardly honest when the only one profiting is the rich man who owns the workplace." She was right. Dane knew it, and he hated to accept
~ Shana Galen
Is there something I can do? About what? she snapped. About your problem, he persisted. Does anybody's ass need kicking? I can take care of that for you. I kick good ass. Her laughter rang out, sweet and bright and gorgeous. Wow, she said. You'd do that for me? After, what has it been now, a fifteen-minute acquaintance? Twenty, maybe, tops? He considered that, and opened his mouth, and the raw, uncut, uncensored truth just plopped right out. Yeah, he said. I would.
~ Shannon McKenna
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
~ Sharon Flake
Everybody is quiet. ?Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?? Miss Saunders asks. Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn't read none of it.
~ Sharon G. Flake
We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.
~ Sharon Lee
I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
~ Sharon Olds