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Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships. — John C. Maxwell

I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless? — Veronica Roth

The painter saw what was, an alternate
Candor and secrecy inside the skin. — Thom Gunn

That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease. — Lang Leav

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. — Madame De Stael

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. — Alan Dershowitz

Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is. — Peter Tieryas

We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. — A.W. Tozer

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. — Wendell Berry

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers. — John O. Brennan

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. — Jack Welch

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. — Peggy Noonan

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets. — Marty Rubin

If you reward candor, you'll get it. — Jack Welch

One of the advantages of
of this
is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor. — Bill Willingham

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. — John C. Maxwell

Small truths have greater power than big lies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself. — Anne Bronte

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. — Wilfrid Sheed

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration. — Mitt Romney

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg

Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. — Veronica Roth

There is no diplomacy like candor. — E. V. Lucas

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense. — Veronica Roth

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. — Adlai Stevenson I

I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. — Don DeLillo

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work. — Jack Welch

The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page. — Edmond Rostand

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for. — Donna Lynn Hope

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define. — Eugene Field

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

I like the candor of dogs. They're always honest about what they're feeling. — Helen Humphreys

In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.
[Oscar Banks] — Pam Bachorz

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us. — Veronica Roth

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. — Antonio Porchia

Insincerity was taxing once you'd breathed the refreshing air of artless candor. — Penny Reid

Candor generates trust. Trust is the basis on which real change, constructive change, is made. — Joe Biden

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. — Alex Berenson

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations. — Steve Womack

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am. — Veronica Roth

Candor disarms paranoia. — Allen Ginsberg

We can't attack without Candor, I think, unless we have the factionless. — Veronica Roth

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you. — Donna Lynn Hope

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself. — Steven Brown

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful. — Jack Vance

Ted, damned if I'm not impressed with your candor! — Les Miles

Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent — Rose Christo

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power. — Herb Kohl

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating. — Joy Davidman

Honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway. — John Scalzi

If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in-gray. Maybe Tobias and I don't believe in it either. Not really. — Veronica Roth

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks — Veronica Roth

If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction. — Veronica Roth

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness. — Karen Allen

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too. — Clifford Geertz

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. — Jack Welch

Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ... — Veronica Roth

Candor must be a constant if you are truly committed to producing great profitability through the creation of tremendous products and services. — Clay Clark

Childhood candor ... shall I ever find you again? — Leo Tolstoy

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there. — James Polshek

Drink me in, like you would your morning coffee, in tiny sips, in between your thoughts and passing glimpses of candor. I want a taste of me in you. — Nessie Q.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs. — Veronica Roth

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim. — Donna Lynn Hope

To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one's beliefs. But candor offers no assurance that one's beliefs about the world are true. — Sam Harris

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent — Veronica Roth

Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness. — Veronica Roth

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting. — Robert Herrick

Candor is key - being willing to say what no one else is willing to say. — David Shields