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Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there. — Howard Behar

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence. — Dalai Lama

What is simple is false and what is not is useless. — Paul Valery

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. — Criss Jami

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted. — Bryant McGill

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last. — Israelmore Ayivor

Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away. — Alison G. Bailey

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. — Michel De Montaigne

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue. — Richard Steele

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

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. — Frank Herbert

I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone. — Ashley Ormon

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure. — Ron Brackin

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while. — Richard M. Nixon

The truth is not what it seems, but what it is. — Frank Sonnenberg

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty. — Rory Stewart

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?] — John Harington

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. — George Bernard Shaw

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not. — Stephen Watson

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich. — Earl Nightingale

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing. — Kellie Pickler

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting. — Anne Lamott

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth. — Jessica Warman

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt. — Donald E. Williams Jr.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone. — Shawn Lukas

Honesty is not synonymous with truth. — Vera Farmiga

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

Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. — Sophie Hunger

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. — Ray Blanton

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. — Clark Moustakas

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. — Edward De Bono

Honesty is a good thing,
but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control. — Don Marquis

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. — Felix O. Hartmann

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

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus

What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are. — DaShanne Stokes

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is. — Evan Roskos

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest. — Robert Frost

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends — Alexis De Tocqueville

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill. — Henry Wotton

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. — Mark Haddon

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals. — John De Ruiter

To be direct and honest is not safe. — William Shakespeare

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. — Mike Norton

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So.
Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So. — Donald L. Hicks

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion. — Brooke Shields

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect. — Amy Engel

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. — William J.H. Boetcker

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence. — Alessandro Baricco

Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art. — Salman Rushdie

The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man. — Paul Hoffman

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. — Terry Goodkind

Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why. — Ron W. Rathbun

I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be. — Raphael Zernoff

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. — F.L. Lucas

Real wealth is not the weight of coins; it is the net value of your honesty — Munia Khan

That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose - I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune. — Philippa Gregory

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend. — Sean Covey

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average. — Saul Bellow

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do. — Criss Jami

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same. — John Andreas Widtsoe

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. — Walter Lippmann

Honesty is not only a gift to other people--it's a gift to yourself. — Lorna Kelly

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. — Orrin Woodward

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

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful. — Addison Gayle Jr.

Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up. — Morgan Matson

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. — Charles Dickens

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. — Sandra Chami Kassis

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. — Henry Adams

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. — Joe Tye

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Honesty in small things is not a small thing. — Robert C. Martin

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

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy — Michel De Montaigne

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more. — T. Boone Pickens

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. — Charles H. Brower

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. — Peter Atkins

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature — Michel De Montaigne

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. — Victor Hugo

When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians. — Sunday Adelaja

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential. — T.K. Coleman

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it. — George Bernard Shaw

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values. — Charles J. Chaput

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty. — James Poniewozik

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest — William Shakespeare

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it. — John Ruskin