Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Without respect love is lost. Without caring love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable.

Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty leads the way. But truth can be asserted when one is being dishonest as well.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Honesty is the best policy, but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Open confession is good for the soul.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

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

...when someone is honest and vulnerable they wring my heart I want to hug them for being real...

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

I was once honest with myself on April Fools day. I thought it would be the best practical joke ever but I realized Id already been the butt of an even bigger one. My birth.

And thats the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

If you expect honesty be honest. If you expect forgiveness forgive. If you expect a whole person you have to be a whole person.

Could beauty my lord have better commerce than with honesty

There is no well defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

Im not mean Im honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A man who will steal for me will steal from me. Theodore Roosevelt dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune in to you and what you are doing.

Some people think I say inappropriate things… I prefer to think of it as, radical honesty.

Confidence in others honesty is no light testimony of ones own integrity.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

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.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.

Wohlgeachtet ist der Mann dessen Ma Rechtschaffenheit ist und dessen Wandel sich danach richtet.

Honesty is the best image.

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

Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

I find honesty to be a rare thingin politics.

You see I have a policy about honesty and asskicking which is if you ask for it then I have to let you have it.

Rayleen talking to Billy. Grace is thriving here and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that can come take it up with me.Thank God Billy said because I really hate it when people come take things up with ME.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict every thing you said today.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

He who denies all, confesses all.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Im not a good liar and that makes me a good liar because liars are bad and bad liars are good.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Be prepared and be honest.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I only knew what was in my mind and I wished to express it clearly

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies...

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

In wine is truth and the truth had all come out that is all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

The real things havent changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful to make the most of what we have to be happy with simple pleasures and have courage when things go wrong.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Its better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Honesty has always been very important to me.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

He or she who writes for others will never be contented.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

He that jokes confesses.

Honesty to be who you are despite all expectations.

There are two great forces in this world good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

If you cant get to be uncommon through going straight youll never get to do it through going crooked. ... live well and die happy.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man.

Love and honesty dont mix.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

Frank and explicit that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

If thou employest plain men, and canst find such as are commonly honest, they will work faithfully, and report fairly. Cunning men will, for their own credit, adventure without command; and from thy business derive credit to themselves.

Reduce the fiction and you

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

I lie without a mask thus I am an honest man.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies Norah Nick amp Norahs Infinite Playlist

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The answer is good things only happen to you if youre good. Good Honest is more what I mean Be anything but a coward a pretender an emotional crook a whore Id rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

She was one of those people who are irrevocably incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Honesty. Loyalty. & Love.Is it that hard?

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Confessed faults are half mended.- Scottish Proverbs

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

In simplicity there is truth.

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face – not behind your back.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame manhood, character, stand for success nothing else really does.

...the honour of a maid is her name; andno legacy is so rich as honesty.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Honesty what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

Labkais veikals ir godgums.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Dont ever regret being honest. Period.

Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Each time we dont say what we wanna say were dying.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

You wear a mask for so long you forget who you were beneath it.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

You ask me what forces me to speak a strange thing my conscience.

Unless youre ashamed of yourself now and then youre not honest

When you walk a life of honesty you live a life of truth.

The truth is the only thing worth having and in a civilized life like ours where so many risks are removed facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

Craigengelt you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest and I scarce know how to believe that or you are cleverer than I took you for and I scarce know how to believe that either.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling truth speaking truth living and truth loving.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

You honestly believe, you meant something to me?

Monkeys stand for honesty.

Though I am not naturally honest I am sometimes so by chance.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Im fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or pss them off. They should be fully aware that I dont really care.

Things work out better when youre straight up.

Of all the feats of skill, the most difficult is that of being honest.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11

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

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Say what you have to say not what you ought. Any truth is better than makebelieve.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

People who talk much say nothing.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self pity.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

There are honest people in the world but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

No I dont think I could fall in love with him handsome though he is because I dont accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. Id have to trust a mans words before I could love him. I think.

Repose not trust in testing anothers degree of honesty at the risk of ones loss in matters big unless collateralized.

Put a rogue in the lime light and he will act like an honest man.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al – I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Why would you ever premedicate honesty To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

Honest. Its almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Theres one way to find out if a man is honest ask him if he says yes you know hes crooked.

Honesty is always the best policy even when its not the trend.

Honesty for me is usually the worst policy imaginable.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness and hides a man not only from others but from his own soul.

Youre only responsible for being honest not for someone elses reaction to your honesty.

This is a difficult balance telling the truth how much to share how much to keep which truths will wound but not ruin which will cut too deep to heal.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.Maggie

I got over shy a really long time ago. Im queer Im feline get used to it.

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

Mistreated and disregarded truth often falls victim to human vice and subjectivity which being the most rampant of these is solely to blame for the innumerable intellectual embargoes weve imposed upon its virtue.

I have survived. I am here. Confused screwed up but here. So how can I find my way Is there a chain saw of the soul an ax I can take to my memories or fears

Honestys the best policy.

I just think if you dont say the honest thing sometimes the honest thing never becomes true you know and I

Its honest to admit youll kill someone because you hate them.

Honesty is always good except when its better to lie.

Dont bend dont water it down dont try to make it logical dont edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Shed tried her hand at most things but drew the line at honesty.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts and you become a wild beast yourself. The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Id rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isnt being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you but the others sure to.

Like the heman movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silentfilm actors whose voices sound terrible recordedthe audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. ellipses original

To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.

Nothing is more respectable than honesty.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth nothing easier than flattery.

What will you tell himThe truth.Fortismer thinks about that.Yes he says at last. Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive honesty.

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions to be deceived by flattering appearances to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain downright simple honest truth.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation You build up hope but failures all youve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Appearance blinds whereas words reveal.

No matter what happened he was Dex and I was Perry and that combination only led to trouble.

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I seem at once cursed to say precisely what Im thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.