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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Thomas Paine

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Altucher

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr RA

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Mother Teresa

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.

Steven Aitchison

Be honest in your life it creates positive energy, stopping all unfairness through life.

Fathima Bibi Joosab

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.

Francis Bacon

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not honest with yourself, how can you be truly honest with anyone else?

Paul Williams

Being an honest person should be simple but being truly honest with others and yourself can be a real challenge at times.

Chris Hughes

Sometimes it is more difficult to be honest with yourself than to try to please other people by saying what they want to hear.

Gerard Strong

The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time.

Tom Hanks

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

Facing it. Always facing it. That's the way to get through it. Face it.

Joseph Conrad

They who is every least thing are wholly honest with the spirit of life, find life supporting them in all things.

Charles Johnson

Our lives improve only when we take chances--and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances--and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Don't say it. I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

Ken Kesey, Take My Advice

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Bobby Bowden

Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.

Alexander Hamilton

Memorable Quotes

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

A lie comes back sooner or later.

African Proverb

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Jackie Mason

If you don't know how, why pretend?

Huang O.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

I can always get along with an honest friend.

Harry S Truman

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Crowell

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Altucher

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

John Mellencamp
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.
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
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.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
But the truth is that people need other people, that a good story requires more than one character. We were all made to be loved and made to be known, to find ourselves in honest relationships where those things can be reciprocated and exchanged.

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