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Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Daily Quote:
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Baudrillard, Jean - Smile)

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Browse Quotations about Honesty

A few honest men are better than numbers.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Be prepared and be honest.
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.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
Do not do what you would undo if caught.
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.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
I am looking for an honest man.
I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
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.
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.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.
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.
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.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
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.
On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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.
There is no right way to do something wrong.
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.