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700 Best Honesty Quotes: Truth, Trust And Wisdom

1. “You have to fill your bucket with positive energy—and if you have people hanging around you that are bringing you down and not lifting you up. whether that’s your ‘boo’ or your best friend—you have to learn how to push these people to the side" - Michelle Obama


2. The most common form of despair is not being who you are.


3. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. – H. L. Mencken


4. Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people. – Warren Buffett


5. “Supporting the truth, even when it is unpopular, shows the capacity for honesty and integrity.” – Steve Brunkhorst


6. “If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.” – Richard Yates


7. Everything starts from you


8. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.


9. ‘No. ’ said Digory. ‘I see now I wasn’t. I was only pretending.‘”


10. “Long-distance relationships are so much more serious and meaningful than short-distance relationships. I mean, you have to have such strong faith and trust in a person to know that they won’t cheat or lie. And honesty, too. Lots of honesty. Plus, they’re so much cuter; red-eyed Skype dates, love letters, and sometimes even costly phone calls. It’s hard to have someone mean so much to you, and you to them, and not being able to be in their arms whenever you want. Not being above to hold them, kiss them, or spend precious moments together. But finally getting on a plane or driving hours to see that person, and spending days together with them, being together, in each other’s presence, is the most memorable, wonderful, romantic thing ever.” – Unknown.


11. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy, of dishonesty. – Nathaniel Hawthorne


12. “When you think positive. good things happen.” – Matt Kemp


13. Never dull your shine for somebody else.


14. To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce


15. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real—the choice to be honest, the choice to let our true selves be seen.”


16. “An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, but they are also more difficult to fake.” – Zero Dean


17. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.” ~ Zig Ziglar


18. “In the absence of clearly defined goals. we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by them.”


19. “Remember this: Seek the Truth. Once you find it hold on to it. Fight for it. Stand up for the truth even if you’re standing alone.”


20. “I don’t want the perfect relationship, because perfect is impossible. I want trustworthy, honest, loyal and love. I love imperfections. I don’t want perfect. I want worth it.”


21. In a world where there’s so much fake, find it in your heart to be yourself. Be you. Don’t be a hypocrite. No apologies. Say no when you don’t want something. Don’t be forced into saying yes. Be honest. Be authentic. Don’t be part of anything fake. Your heart will be at peace! Mufti Menk (Source)


22. You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.


23. “All we can do. for the moment is really we need to do – listen to ourselves. When we are trying to get better. the only truth that matters is what works for us.”


24. “Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.” — Sallust


25. “That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.” — Meredith Monk


26. Being open and honest is hard. Living with secrets is hard. Choose your hard.


27. “Let others determine your worth and you're already lost. because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”


28. “The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.”


29. “Broken trust and anger will close a heart until honesty and love is once again found.”– Anonymous


30. “It’s a formidable scent. It stings the nostrils. In a good way. Brian, I’m gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.” – Ron Burgundy


31. “Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience. you can’t go wrong.” ~ Nicole Scherzinger


32. “Every decision I make is the right decision for me.” – Louise Hay


33. I know, it is hard to find a friend who is loyal, caring, honest and cute. Lucky for you, I am all of those and more.


34. “Blue collar work is honest, hard and essential.” – Unknown


35. “Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”― Stewart Stafford


36. “I bend but do not break.” – Jean de la Fontaine


37. We have to be bold in our national ambitions.


38. "The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”


39. “If you’re lucky enough to be different, don’t ever change.” — Taylor Swift


40. You are enough, just as you are. Each emotion you feel, everything in your life, everything you do or do not do… where you are and who you are right now is enough. It is perfect. You are perfect enough. – Melanie Jade


41. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now. unadorned and honest. vulnerable yet invincible.”


42. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney


43. “Supporting the truth, even when it is unpopular, shows the capacity for honesty and integrity.”


44. “The golden rule of parenting is to always show your children the kind of person you want them to be. Remember that children are impressionable. If you wish to have a well-mannered, kind and honest daughter, do your best to show these characteristics to her.” — Elizabeth Roxas


45. “You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”


46. “Real change is difficult at the beginning. but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett


47. “A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” – Lawrence G. Lovasik


48. “Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.”


49. “Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.” ― Molly Ivins


50. “Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.”


51. If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.


52. A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines. – Matshona Dhliwayo


53. I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.


54. “One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.” ― Dan Pearce


55. I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can’t have that if you’re not open to receiving feedback. – Mindy Grossman


56. “You have your own life, why waste it on focusing on others.” – Nitin Namdeo


57. “Recast your current problems into proactive goals.” – Suze Orman


58. “The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral – whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of real love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I’m in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I’m lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.” – Maggie Rowe


59. “As you think. so shall you become.” – Bruce Lee


60. “Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because. vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably.


61. “Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” — Salvador Dali


62. Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness


63. “As I took those two steps back. Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward.”


64. “Your brother is who gives you a honest advice.” – Arabic proverb


65. I never cared about the material things a man could give me. I cared about his time, attention, honesty, loyalty, and effort. Those gifts mean more than anything money could buy.” – Unknown


66. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” -Oprah Winfrey


67. “Be honest, be kind, and share the love.” ― Suzi Quatro


68. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed. Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook


69. “Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.” — Lemuel K. Washburn


70. “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.” ― Chuck Klosterman


71. “You are powerful and worthy of great things.”


72. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”– Kurt Cobain


73. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.


74. “He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his persona intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”


75. “Always be honest about the way someone makes you feel about yourself.”


76. “Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror. and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.” – Aaron Rodgers


77. “Not only must a knight be able to use weapons and prove himself knowledgeable in many fields. but above all he must prove that he is chivalrous and honest. brave and true. He must be knightly in every respect.”


78. Walk Faster


79. “What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.”


80. “ In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take. ” Kina Grannis


81. Become an Active Listener


82. “Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” –Lauryn Hill


83. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” —Vincent Van Gogh, painter. These inspirational quotes will help get you through the morning.


84. Your brother is who gives you a honest advice. Arabic proverb


85. “Being real is sexy. Honesty is magnetic. We are attracted to things that feel natural. not forced.”


86. It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. — Shawn Johnson


87. “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.”


88. “Words always remain words. the world will change.” – Mayan Kumar Louteriya


89. You always were a role model for me. You taught me how to be honest and reliable friend, how to respect people and, what is more important, you showed me what happy family life is. Thank you!


90. Dear God, if I’m honest, there are times where I feel deep pain. It’s hard to continue. There are no smiles. I don’t feel joy. Please help me trust You when it’s hard. Help me believe that, with time, You can make something beautiful of my life. In Jesus’ Name, amen. - Chrystal Evans Hurst


91. “Let us make our future now. and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.”


92. “The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.” — George Oppen


93. “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Payless attention to what people say, and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth.”


94. “When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true, and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.” – Harry Frankfurt


95. “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor. I lose myself.”


96. “If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise.” ― Christina Strigas


97. “The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every honest person believes in dragons -- down in the back kitchen of his consciousness.”


98. “Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty. ” – Harold Duarte-Bernhardt


99. “It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” ~ Noel Coward


100. “The less money you owe, the less income you’ll need and the less you’ll have to save for tomorrow.” – Suze Orman


101. “The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.” Mike Rowe


102. “Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.”


103. “Only the work you do is beneficial for you, what others are doing is the matter of their life, you just concentrate on your work.” – Nitin Namdeo


104. “For nothing is more precious to me. and rarer. than honesty.”


105. “You’re always learning about yourself. if you’re honest with yourself. It’s very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves. a lot of the time. We don’t want to deal with something. so we compartmentalize it.” – Geoff Johns


106. It is better to have an enemy who honestly says they hate you


107. I am sick of liars. I am tired of being lied to, cheated on and betrayed. I want what I deserve, a partner that will not lead me on, use me or string me along. So be honest with yourself and others if you want something real.


108. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.”


109. “You were given this life. because you are strong enough to live it.”


110. “You are capable of anything you put your mind to.”


111. Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.


112. “People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.”— David A. Bednar


113. “Before starting something think about the worst. but don’t let it happen. but be prepared for it.” – Achyuta Surya


114. “Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty.”– Harold Duarte-Bernhardt


115. “Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.” — William Shakespeare


116. You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!


117. “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care. affection. recognition. respect. commitment. and trust. as well as honest and open communication.”


118. “You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty – always be honest with yourself.”


119. I admire honesty more than any other trait. – Jerry Reinsdorf


120. “Behold the red and gold of the sunset. This is Dubai at its most picturesque, when the sun leaves a shimmering blaze of dusk on sails as buildings, boats and bridges twinkle in the distance all around.” Anonymous


121. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest hemingway


122. “Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure. but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas. filmmaking becomes an inside-out. honest kind of process. And if it’s an honest thing for you. there’s a chance that people will feel that. even if it’s abstract.” ~ David Lynch. Stay true quotes honest


123. “If you are honest with yourself. your life will be so much more pleasant.”


124. “If you can't fly. then run if you can't run. then walk if you can't walk. then crawl whatever you do. you have to keep moving forward.”


125. “If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.” — John Hope


126. If you don't give anything don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you. You must come to it. - Marva Collins


127. “Somebody out there probably thinks you’re the greatest thing in the whole world. Don’t ever think you’re not good enough.” – John David Anderson


128. Hard work, honesty, tenacity, and love are just a few of your attributes. Your words of encouragement brightened many of my days and helped sharpen my life for good.


129. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.” - Taylor Lautner


130. ”Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty. ” – Harold Duarte-Bernhardt


131. “You’re worthy of greatness. even if you don’t see it yet.” – Lauren Jarvis-Gibson


132. Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men. – Herbert Hoover


133. Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.


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


135. “Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it.” – Lionel Messi


136. In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take. – Kina Grannis


137. “Most people avoid and evade the powerful life experiences that helps transform. and mold. them to be able to use more of their fullest potential.” – Tony Dovale


138. Friendship is the purest of all relation. If you ever find a true and honest friend, be thankful and don’t ever let him go. Happy Friendship Day to all!


139. “I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”― Tyler Knott Gregson


140. “The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.” — Robert E. Lee


141. “Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That’s your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.”


142. “A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends“


143. Control your own destiny or someone else will. -Jack Welch


144. “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.”


145. Our company is thankful to you for being an honest buyer.


146. “I’m sorry if you don’t like my honesty but to be fair I don’t like you lies.”


147. Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. - Peter V. Brett


148. “Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ” — Robert Burns


149. “I hate not working. It’s that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.” – George Blagden


150. “Everyone one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and. in the process. care for ourselves.” – Diana. Princess of Wales


151. “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. ” — Amy Tan


152. “To be honest, I’m selfish as an artist. I’m doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.” Tierra Whack


153. “Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.”


154. Never settle for anything less than you want. - PJ Harvey.


155. I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry. – John Legend


156. “All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.” — John Quincy Adams


157. “A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty, and integrity, to reach for the stars.” ~ Nelson Mandela


158. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. – Sena Jeter Naslund


159. “I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: Please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.” — Ingo Molnar


160. The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. - Anonymous


161. “Follow your heart. listen to your inner voice. stop caring about what others think.”


162. Don’t be afraid of being different


163. “Say more with your feet than you ever could with words.” – Lionel Messi


164. “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” – John Gerzema


165. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” – Brené Brown


166. “Trust may be rebuilt. It takes time, communication and pure honesty.”


167. “I mistrust all frank and simple people. especially when their stories hold together...”


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


169. ‘Please. ’ she said. ‘you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.‘”


170. “You don’t have to have a small fortune to achieve your dreams. You simply must overcome the obstacles that get in your way and be willing to triumph over your fear and take a leap of faith.” — Alicia Garcia


171. “We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”– Susan L. Taylor


172. “An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.” –Zero Dean


173. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. ” —General Colin Powell , former U. S. Secretary of State


174. Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.


175. Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything. – Chuck Klosterman


176. “Dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation. like a bit of broken basin. or dirty rag.”


177. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.


178. “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.” – William Faulkner


179. “I got makeup tests and hair tests for ‘Versailles. ’ and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to have manicures and everything.” – George Blagden


180. All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. – Dalai Lama


181. “The blue-collar code was passed on to me—work hard, be honest, and take care of those around you. It’s a code that has served me well throughout my life.” –Jerry Yang


182. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. ” – General Colin Powell


183. “When you undervalue what you do. the world will undervalue who you are.”


184. “Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults. follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.” – The Buddha (Dhammapada. verse 76)


185. “Heartbreaking”: Eckersley family speaks out after daughter gives birth in woods. faces charges


186. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” – David Brinkley


187. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Zig Ziglar


188. “People don’t really talk honestly about how difficult being a mom actually is and what things we sacrifice every day in order to be good moms.” -Jenni Ogden


189. “In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”


190. Are you enough for you is the only question you need to answer.


191. “Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.”


192. “I would rather be damned by my honesty than caged by my lies.”


193. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go. let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles” – C. JoyBell C.


194. “Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.” —Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook Chief Operating Officer


195. “If you’re not honest with yourself. life will never be honest with you.”


196. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes


197. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty. ” —Zig Ziglar, personal development trainer and speaker. Read these other success quotes to aspire to greatness


198. “If a man asks me for my loyalty…I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty…I will give him my loyalty!” – John Boyd


199. “True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.”


200. “I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ~ Joshua Graham


201. “Authenticity is not something we have or don’t have. It’s a practice – a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” – Brene Brown


202. You are amazing. Own that!


203. “Perhaps the fact


204. Open your hands if you want to be held. — Rumi


205. “He lay down upon a sumptuous divan. and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.”


206. “I allow myself to set healthy boundaries. To say no to what does not align with my values, to say yes to what does. Boundaries assist me to remain healthy, honest and living a life that is true to me. ” – Lee Horbachewski


207. “Of all our infirmities. the most savage is to despise our being.” – Michel de Montaigne


208. “We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly—spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.” – Susan L. Taylor


209. “What I needed was someone totally competent, totally honest, and totally loyal to oversee the project.”


210. “If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one. check your pulse. You may be dead.” – Gelett Burgess


211. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein


212. “I do not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”


213. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful.”


214. “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.”


215. You have to be ODD, to be number ONE.


216. “Honesty is very sexy.” — Valerie Bertinelli


217. “Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.” — Ed McMahon


218. “It takes so much energy to lie. I wish people could grasp and sense the freedom and liberation which comes with being honest and genuine.” – Mama Zara


219. “Once you embrace your value. talents and strengths. it neutralizes when others think less of you.”


220. ″The most fundamental aggression to ourselves. the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves. is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.″


221. “First of all ,you have to be loyal & honest with yourself.”


222. “Unfortunately, in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful, honest man.” ― Munia Khan


223. “Ok, look. I’m honest. Girl I can’t lie I miss you. You and the music were the only things that I’d commit to.” ― Drake


224. “I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.” — Jane Fonda


225. The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. — Zig Ziglar


226. Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. -T. Harv Eker


227. How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.


228. It helps people to become honest when they are treated as honest. – Elijah Mcleon


229. If you’re not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you. – Leigh Brackett


230. Leadership is the sum total of who you are. Leaders are developed not simply born and


231. “In a healthy relationship. vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you. they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system. vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness. which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it. using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.”


232. Don’t fall in the trap of being accused of being wrong.


233. “The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.” — Stephen Covey


234. “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” — Groucho Marx


235. “Courage to me is doing something daring. no matter how afraid. insecure. intimidated. alone. unworthy. incapable. ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous. but do it anyway!”


236. “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.”


237. “Have courage to use your own reason!” – Immanuel Kant


238. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”


239. “Judging has become such a part of our thinking patterns that we are rarely even aware of why and how we do it. It takes a great deal of conscious thinking or mindfulness to even bring the habit of judging into our awareness.” – Brené Brown


240. “Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.” — Lao Tzu


241. “Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt


242. “Life is always built of relationships with people, and trust is vital to fill friendship, honesty, love, and passion in a relationship. Trust is considered the central pillar supporting a relationship, and is compared to the concrete foundation of a house.”– Kent Pinkerton


243. “Just try. try to be right here. open. honest. straight.”


244. “Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.” — Freeman Thomas


245. “When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. ”


246. “I know I’m not an easy She-dragon to.. not fear.” “I’m not afraid of you, Ghleanna. I’ve never been afraid of you. To be quite honest.. I think you’re amazing. I always have. Since the first time you ignored me.” —G.A. Aiken, Supernatural


247. If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.” — Shakti Gawain


248. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. -Paulo Coelho


249. “It takes guts to do that. I thought. Terrific guts.”


250. “Never expect loyalty from a person that can’t give you honesty.” — Surgeo Bell


251. “I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go. ” – Jeffrey McDaniel


252. “If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity, and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty, and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!” – Israelmore Ayivor


253. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”—Lucille Ball


254. You have to be able to understand what your insecurities are if you want to change them. In order to do this, you are going to have to be very honest with yourself. – Jennifer N Smith


255. “The other nine. decent. hard-working. ordinarily intelligent and honest men. did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now. None of them ever knew. or now knows. Nazism as we knew and know it; and they lived under it. served it. and. indeed. made it.”


256. “You ain’t gotta like me. I like me.” – Kanye West


257. “Your attitude. not your aptitude. will determine your altitude.”


258. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”― Jodi Picoult


259. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud


260. Don’t be too honest in the world, because Straight trees are always chosen for cutting. – Unknown


261. “We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”


262. “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth.”


263. “There will always be someone whose identity is wrapped up in being offended. They're constantly searching for it. These people are the woke mob devotees. Let them be. It's all perfect. Just don't let their tears stop the important discussions from happening. [...]


264. “But whilst man takes delight in this honest and lawful pursuit of his wellbeing. it is to be apprehended that he may in the end lose the use of his sublimest faculties; and that whilst he is busied in improving all around him. he may at length degrade himself.”


265. That is one of the best things about animals - they don't fake liking or not liking you. If only humans were so openly honest.


266. “A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.” — Rupi Kaur


267. “All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.” —Steve Martin, in the film Sgt. Bilko.


268. “Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain. ”


269. Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning. – Joseph B. Wirthlin


270. “One isn't necessarily born with courage. but one is born with potential. Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.”


271. Honesty prospers in every condition of life. – Friedrich Schiller


272. “Honesty is all you need.” — Cass Elliot


273. “Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long” ~ Invajy


274. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt


275. Honesty and loyalty are key. – Taylor Lautner


276. "One honest friend is worth more than a million sycophants.” ― Kevin Ansbro


277. “As long as you’re honest and you articulate what you believe to be true. somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”


278. An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.


279. “You were always enough.”


280. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.


281. “We are each a composite of our prior actions and omissions. Over the course of a lifetime. we each exhibit strong personality tendencies. Absent intentional volition. our personality characteristics became more ingrained as we age.” – Kilroy J. Oldster


282. “There’s more to honesty than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie. but you lie in your intentions. your attitude. your demeanor —”


283. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly. you cease for ever to be able to do it.”―J. M. Barrie


284. “So in teaching honesty you have a ready audience. Don’t blow it by encouraging your son to tell white lies- even if they’re well intentioned. Young boys think in black-and-white terms. ” Meg Meeker


285. “I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.”– John Legend


286. ‘By being better than other people. ’ said Papa. For instance. the Nazis say that Jews are dishonest. So it’s not enough for us to be as honest as anyone else. We have to be more honest.‘”


287. “We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.”— Michelle Obama


288. Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences—good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as ordinary courage.


289. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice. — Bethany Hamilton


290. “It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar.”


291. Always do what you are afraid of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


292. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” – Zig Ziglar


293. “Boastfulness and excessive pride do not equate at all with humility and honesty. credibility and integrity.”


294. “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty. who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”


295. “Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable.”– Anonymous


296. “Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.” — Stephen Leacock


297. Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. — Ava DuVernay


298. “Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.” — Alan Arkin


299. “Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror. and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character.


300. Let’s be honest —you wouldn’t have this special day if it wasn’t for me! Happy Father’s Day!


301. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ― Leo Buscaglia


302. “Creative ideas happen when you stop thinking about what others will think.” – James Clear


303. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison


304. “Just be yourself. be honest. work towards a goal and you’ll achieve it.” — Emraan Hashmi


305. “In all honesty, I’m not able to talk about contracts. It’s nothing with ‘American Idol’ in particular, it’s just things I really need to take care of in my life.” — Mario Vazquez


306. Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap." - Hildegard Von Bingen


307. Show me a man with one friend and I’ll see a man who’s honest.” – Andrew Tate Misogyny quotes


308. “No class of man is altogether bad. but each has its own faults and virtues; and these shipmates of mine were no exception to the rule. Rough they were. sure enough; and bad. I suppose; but they had many virtues. They were kind when it occurred to them. simple even beyond the simplicity of a country lad like me. and had some glimmerings of honesty.”


309. “The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.” — Richard J. Needham


310. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Oprah Winfrey


311. If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms. – Rachel Dolezal


312. "Happy Wednesday Fam! Dream BIG, live courageously, communicate honestly, be mindful, act with kindness, and SPREAD LOVE TODAY and EVERY DAY!” — Tracey Edmonds


313. You are enough, just as you are.


314. “That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.” – Meredith Monk


315. No legacy is so rich as honesty. - Shakespeare


316. A good man or woman will be honest no matter how painful the truth is


317. “People are going to have to become entrepreneurial; they’re going to have to become their own bosses. The days of working for a corporation, you get a pension after 30 years and health benefits [are] gone.” – Suze Orman


318. “You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty, and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.” – Pope John Paul II


319. “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld


320. “Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.” — Leo Burnett


321. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”—Sandra Bierig


322. “Genuine people are usually straight-forward and express their honest opinions openly without any hidden agenda or incentive. What they say is all there is to it.”


323. Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.


324. No legacy is so rich as honesty.


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


326. Never underestimate the pain of a person because, in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Just some people are better at hiding it than others.


327. Don’t ever regret being honest. Period. – Taylor Swift


328. “A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik


329. It’s about communication. It’s about honesty. It’s about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don’t try to give them half the story. You don’t try to hide the story. You treat them as, as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate. – Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.


330. “Be you. It’s life’s best offer to others.” ― Johnnie Dent Jr.


331. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence. then. is not an act but a habit.”


332. “Once the sand of Dubai has settled on your shoulders, you can never shake it off.” Anonymous


333. “Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”


334. I talk about him, not because I’m constantly living in pain. I’m not anymore, but in my world, this is my normal, and I’d rather live honestly and out loud. Joy, love, happiness, and gratefulness are my everyday, but so are death, loss, heartache, and grief. – Scribbles and Crumbs


335. Today we have done an hour's saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. Kat can't get it out of his head. You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well, he says. Kropp - Author: Erich Maria Remarque


336. “Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out. just take their oxygen and burn brighter.” ― Katelyn S. Irons


337. “Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible – then you’ll naturally have an impact.” ― Naval Ravikant


338. “Don’t ever regret being honest. Period.”


339. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”


340. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball


341. “When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.”


342. “I want to be honest about postpartum depression because I think there’s still so much shame when you have mixed feelings about being a mom instead of feeling this sort of ‘bliss.’ I think a lot of people still really struggle with that, but it’s hard to find other people who are willing to talk about it.” – Amanda Peet


343. “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . .I divide the world into the learners and the non-learners.” — Benjamin Barber


344. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”


345. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama


346. . . …


347. “Honesty is the first step toward healing.”


348. “Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.” – Gad Saad


349. “thinking. the courage it took to get


350. “So you're always honest," I said.


351. “The most important life lessons are not learned in school” – Will Smith


352. “I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.”


353. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin


354. You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. - Eleanor Roosevelt


355. “You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There’s only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That’s pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else. dress like anyone else. dance like anyone else. be someone else. when you are a legend in your own right?” ~ Mia Michaels


356. “Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.” – Brené Brown


357. “We are constantly invited to be who we are.” Henry David Thoreau


358. “I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.”


359. “I wish we could stop the little lies. I don’t mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don’t believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.”


360. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.” – General Colin Powell


361. “I honestly think the beach is the only place children actually entertain themselves.”


362. “Dare to be honest, and fear no labor. ” —Robert Burns


363. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. - Mother Theresa


364. “I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.” — Anthony Trollope


365. “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”—Glennon Doyle


366. “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.” –Amy Tan


367. “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.” — John Steinbeck


368. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey


369. “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth!”


370. Be honest in your life it creates positive energy. – Fathima Bibi Joosab


371. “I am not a bird. and no net ensnares me.” – Emily Dickinson


372. “If you obey all the rules. you miss all the fun.” – Katherine Hepburn


373. “Of course. courage only counts when you can count.”


374. Boastfulness and excessive pride do not equate at all with humility and honesty, credibility and integrity. – Angelica Hopes


375. “The Dream is the enemy of all art. courageous thinking. and honest writing.”


376. “But communicate with honest appreciation and you’ll be amazed how she lights up in front of you.” – Mark Manson


377. “Fake people are only nice when it’s convenient for them or they usually have a hidden agenda. Genuinely nice people go out of their way to help others and they have an honest heart. Stick with the ones who never let you down and keep their promises. You can’t fake that.”


378. “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~ Albert Einstein


379. “It's difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.” – Carlos Wallace


380. “Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.” – Maya Angelou


381. “I could never be a politician. I have a problem of too often being honest.”


382. “Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” ― Brian Tracy


383. “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.”


384. “I never cared about the material things someone could give me. I care about time, attention, honesty, loyalty and effort. Those gifts mean more than anything money could buy.”


385. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.


386. “A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.” – Richard Rohr


387. “Don’t dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses”


388. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford


389. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. – Kerry Stokes


390. “You’re a work of art. Not everyone will understand you.”


391. ″‘I’m an explorer. ’ said Coraline out loud. but her words sounded muffled and dead on the misty air. She had made it out of the cellar. hadn’t she?”


392. “There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes. you know he's crooked.”


393. “What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. ” – Vanessa Marcil


394. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.”


395. “I’m not mean. I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.”


396. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. – Abraham Lincoln


397. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let out true selves be seen.


398. It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers. — Tim Gunn


399. “Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” ~ Sigmund Freud


400. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."— Leo F. Buscaglia


401. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” ~ Dennis Prager


402. “There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.” – Susan Cain


403. ″‘Leslie. I swear – I’d go in there if I could.’ He really thought he would. too. ‘You ain’t scared of her. are you. Leslie?’ He didn’t mean it in a daring way. he was just dumbfounded by the idea of Leslie being scared.”


404. “Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest. something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at. and the rest of the time thinking about.”


405. “Originality is the best form of rebellion.”


406. “Without the help of my teammates I would be nothing. I wouldn’t win titles, honors, nothing.” – Lionel Messi


407. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.


408. “My Sunday is a leisure day in which I encourage myself to forget the responsibilities of my workdays and engage honestly with my friends and loved ones.” ― Srinivas Mishra


409. I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson


410. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. – Mahatma Gandhi


411. Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart – it’s all a man has.


412. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill


413. You were born to be real, not perfect!


414. So in teaching honesty you have a ready audience. Don’t blow it by encouraging your son to tell white lies- even if they’re well intentioned. Young boys think in black-and-white terms.” Meg Meeker


415. “The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong.” – Dick Van Patten


416. “Abraham Lincoln: A long career ruled by honesty” (Great American History)


417. “Be prepared and be honest. ” – JOHN WOODEN Twitter-Bird Small


418. “Don’t let anyone else tell you who you are or what you can achieve.”


419. “Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” ― Aaron Neville


420. “Why is it that loving something provides so little protection from betrayal?”


421. “So in teaching honesty you have a ready audience. Don’t blow it by encouraging your son to tell white lies- even if they’re well intentioned. Young boys think in black-and-white terms.” Meg Meeker


422. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. – Tina Fey


423. “Broken trust and anger will close a heart until honesty and love is once again found. ” — Anonymous


424. “Take criticism seriously. but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism. try to learn from it. Otherwise. let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton


425. “It is simply a confession that with all that I've seen in the last few years. all the events I've been invited to. and all the people whom I've met. I am less and less impressed by "impressive" things or people who are presented as having things figured out. I am impressed by people who are honest and kind. I am inspired by moments of vulnerability. moments of confession and compassion. moments where someone makes it clear that they are a person in need of other people and someone else makes it clear that the first person is not alone.”


426. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson


427. “I used to care so much. I used to fight for this. I tried my hardest to hold on and keep you but you didn’t want this as much as I did. I didn’t lose you. Let’s be honest, you lost me.” – R.H. Sin


428. “Being honest may not get you many friends. but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon


429. “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”


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


431. “And if you learn to have those difficult conversations in a loving, honest, and responsible way, your relationships can become better than you ever thought they could.” – Henry Cloud and John Townsend, How to Have That Difficult Conversation


432. “I cant do this….yet”


433. “I thought when I get older/ I’d marry her, I told her/ Now I’m twenty-six and I work in an office/ Nine till five’s not the best, I’ll be honest/ If I could change a single thing/ I’d make it me and not him. ” – Wilbur Soot, Song: “Your New Boyfriend”


434. “I honestly hate being on social media it make my brain feel cluttered. ” – Polo G


435. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” – Dennis Prager


436. “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real.” — Lil Wayne.


437. “You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.” — Jean-Paul Sartre


438. Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. – Vernon Howard


439. ... if you learn to have those difficult conversations in a loving, honest, and responsible way, your relationships can become better than you ever thought they could. Henry Cloud, John Townsend; How to Have That Difficult Conversation


440. ”An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.” – Zero Dean


441. “Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.” — Andrew Carnegie


442. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” — Helen Keller


443. “I hate liars…they’re just dishonest people that don’t care about other people’s feelings.”


444. “You're allowed to assert your needs and take up space. You're allowed to hold onto the truth that who you are is exactly enough.”


445. Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. – Dave Van Ronk


446. “A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit. ” — Unknown


447. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”– Coco Chanel


448. “Just knowing in your heart that you are a good person—an honest. good person—can get you through an awful lot of crap.”


449. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” -Benjamin Disraeli


450. I try different things everyday until I get it right


451. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.


452. “Be twice as funny as you are outrageous. because no one can resist the truth wrapped in a good joke.”


453. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”


454. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”


455. “The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Don’t let anyone make you feel like you shouldn’t have.”


456. “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.” ― Nelson


457. “It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein


458. “Without respect, Love is lost. Without caring, Love is boring. Without honesty, Love is unhappy. Without trust, Love is unstable.” – Unknown.


459. “But because of this the mosquito has a guilty conscience. To this day she goes about whining in people’s ears. ‘Zeee! Is everyone still angry at me?’ When she does that. she gets an honest answer.”


460. “Some people lose diamonds in search of stones.”


461. “A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust, and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.”– Neil Strauss


462. “I’m simply reminding you that you’re worth more than what you’ll find at the bottom of a bottle.” ― Myra McEntire


463. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm S. Forbes


464. “Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.” — Lance Loud


465. “If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer


466. You are amazing. Well I can't even describe you, you are more than amazing.


467. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”- Leo Buscaglia


468. “Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.”


469. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia


470. “Someone said there’s no such thing as an honest man. He was probably a con man.” – Frank W. Abagnale


471. “The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.” — Merry Browne


472. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary


473. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”


474. “An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.”


475. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”


476. “Broken Trust and ager will close a heart until honesty and love is once again found.”


477. “The real source of inner joy is to remain truthful and honest.”


478. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now


479. When people don’t tell you the truth, what they really are saying is they don’t value you or their relationship with you enough, to be honest.” — unknown


480. “Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.” — Michael Moriarty


481. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor


482. “I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.” — Shia LaBeouf


483. I am sick of the lies. I am sick of the dishonesty. I am sick of having to pretend to be someone I am not when all I want to do is be real.


484. “Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – German Proverb


485. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy


486. “An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake. ” – Zero Dean


487. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”


488. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson


489. “When they judge you, yawn. When they misunderstand you, smile. When they underestimate you, laugh. When they condemn you, ignore. When they envy you, rejoice. When they oppose you, prevail.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


490. I am sick of liars, people who makeup lies, and then pretend that they are telling the truth. It is a sad world we live in when people are so dishonest. We lie for a variety of reasons: to protect ourselves, to make ourselves look better than others.


491. “There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.” – Ellen Langer


492. “Stop telling me he is just a dog. My dog has more character loyalty and honesty than most people I know.”


493. "I honestly hate being on social media, it makes my brain feel cluttered.”


494. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”


495. “Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.” — George Saunders


496. “I understand the urge to be nice. I know how strong the invisible forces of guilt and fear can be. How difficult it can be to push through this to say what you really want, and express what you really think and feel. I also know how all-consuming the backlash of anxiety and guilt can be after you’ve been more direct, expressive, honest, or assertive.”—Aziz Gazipura


497. Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people. – Frank McKinney


498. “I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say. ‘This is who I am.'” — Oprah Winfrey


499. “Don’t wait to be rich or famous to change the planet. you’re doing it now.” – Jolene Stockman


500. “Tell people how it is, be real and be honest. If you see something wrong make sure you speak up. Being this way will naturally eliminate the snakes and fakes.” – John Maiorana


501. “For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.” — Charles Baudelaire


502. “If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise.” – Christina Strigas


503. “The key is to keep asking. keep probing. keep drilling down. If you activate your natural curiosity. every answer you get may generate new questions. and then new answers. followed by more questions. and so on. in an ever-rising ladder of understanding.” – Joseph Deitch


504. ‘When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”


505. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. – Mary Kay Ash


506. Sure, sometimes I question my parenting. But to be honest, sometimes I question my child’s childing. – Just Surviving Motherhood


507. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.” – General Colin Powell


508. We have stories to tell, stories that provide wisdom about the journey of life. What more have we to give one another than our ‘truth’ about our human adventure as honestly and as openly as we know how? – Rabbi Saul Rubin


509. Effort is grossly underrated. - Gary Vaynerchuk


510. “That’s how life is. Change. Things change. People change. Situations change. Everything changes. Nothing stays the same―ever.”―Temi O’Sola


511. “Sophie looked warily at the demon’s thin blue face. It had a distinctly cunning look as it made this proposal. Everything she had read showed the extreme danger of making a bargain with a demon. And there was no doubt that this one did look extraordinarily evil. Those long purple teeth. ‘Are you sure you’re being quite honest?’ she said.


512. “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember. amateurs built the ark. professionals built the Titanic.”


513. “No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” – Suze Orman


514. “Almost everyone experiences some form of doubt in themselves and it serves no purpose at all. All it does it hold you back from your goals in life.” – Cameron Gates


515. “There lives more faith in honest doubt. believe me. than in half the creeds.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson


516. “It’s difficult to be honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.” – Carlos Wallace


517. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” — Zig Ziglar


518. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela


519. “Your feelings wouldn’t get hurt if you were honest with yourself”


520. Power isn't control at all—power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. — Beth Revis


521. You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest. – Donald Trump


522. “You can’t add value to the lives of anyone else until you’ve added enough value to your own.” – Drew Dudley


523. “Happy Wednesday Fam! Dream big, live courageously, communicate honestly, be mindful, act with kindness, and spread love today and every day!”


524. “Tell people how it is, be real and be honest. If you see something wrong make sure you speak up. Being this way will naturally eliminate the snakes and fakes.” ― John Maiorana


525. “Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.” – Hal Elrod


526. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones. – John Lennon


527. “What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”—Carl Rogers


528. “Be real. be yourself. be unique. be true. be honest. be humble. be happy.”


529. “In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.”– Kina Grannis


530. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou


531. Maybe you yhink you're not perfect,not pretty enough,or smart enough,but for some guy,you're pefect just the way you are. that's your perfect man. - Author: Yuchita Erayani


532. “It’s better to be hated than be irrelevant.” – Codie Sanchez


533. "When someone lies to you, it's because they don't respect you enough, to be honest, and they think you are too stupid to know the difference.” – Anonymous


534. “Our greatest journey in life is our journey within.”


535. “I’m a firm believer in absolute honesty.” — Frank Langella


536. “JUDGE: One man is dead. The life of another is at stake. I urge you to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully. If this is a reasonable doubt - then you must bring me a verdict of ‘not guilty.‘”


537. “Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.” – Tallulah Bankhead


538. “Being genetically related doesn’t make you family. Love, support, trust, sacrifice, honesty, protection, acceptance, security, compromise, gratitude, respect and loyalty is what makes you family.”


539. “Party honesty is party expediency.” — Grover Cleveland


540. If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don't exist, then maybe we'll leave the world a better place than we found it.


541. “People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.” – Sarah Huckabee Sanders


542. It’s difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself. – Carlos Wallace


543. ″‘Kings and princes have brought entire armies to free the princess. ’ said the fairy. ‘and every last one of them died.’


544. “Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly. not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However. lying allows people to be comfortable.” – Shannon L. Alder


545. There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. – Frank Ocean


546. “If you are loyal, you cannot be honest and if you are honest, you cannot be loyal.”


547. “I’m beautiful in my way / ‘Cause God makes no mistakes”


548. “Who looks outside. dreams; who looks inside. awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung


549. 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. – William Faulkner


550. “As soon as we realize that it’s not our job to be perfect, everything gets easier and more honest and more true. And in my experience, it tends to work better.”


551. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” —Eleanor Roosevelt


552. Trust is a belief that somebody is honest, good, and sincere and will not ever try to harm you, no matter the consequence. Similarly, trusting clients and customers in business aspects are also equally important.


553. “We often block our own blessings because we don’t feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough… You’re worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here. your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.” – Oprah Winfrey


554. As believers, we can trust in our loving Savior who restores our brokenness and makes us new and beautiful. We have a Savior who heals and redeems. I encourage you to bring your wounds to Christ and allow Him to heal you and repair your scars. Be open and honest with Him. We doubt God so often. We forget that He cares so deeply about the intimate part of our lives.


555. If I look back at everything I’ve done in life, you’re easily the best thing I’ve ever created. It’s honestly a miracle that I was able to have a son as delightful and genuine as you. Happy birthday, son!


556. “Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” — Aaron Neville


557. “Never doubt your instinct.” – Anonymous


558. “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.”


559. “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.” – Brené Brown


560. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”


561. “I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.” — Emma Stone


562. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success. ” – Taylor Lautner


563. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones” — John Lennon


564. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook


565. “One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on ‘going it alone.’ Somehow, we’ve come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It’s as if we’ve divided the world into ‘those who offer help’ and ‘those who need help.’ The truth is that we are both.”


566. “She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”


567. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. – Pope John Paul II


568. The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry. – Billy Graham


569. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let out true selves be seen.”


570. No matter what you do, stand up for who you are and be honest. – Bryant McGill


571. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.” ― Dan Brown


572. “In the final analysis it is between you and God. it was never between you and them anyway.” – Mother Teresa.


573. “Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both. there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.”


574. And if you learn to have those difficult conversations in a loving, honest, and responsible way, your relationships can become better than you ever thought they could. – Henry Cloud


575. 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. – Jamie Tworkowski


576. “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.” — Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter


577. 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. ― William Faulkner


578. “If you didn’t sign it. ” said the King. “that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief. or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”


579. Mom, I honestly don’t know how I’d get through each day without you by my side. Thank you for being such a supportive mother to me, and a fantastic grandmother to my children. We all love you so much! Happy Mother’s Day!


580. "One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him—he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way. So yes, I do know that. And now he'll know I know.. – First Lady Michelle Obama in an interview with Prevention about President Barack Obama.


581. “You were born to be real. not to be perfect.”


582. “Rebuilding trust when it’s been broken is not dependent only on the person who has broken it, or how many times they can prove they are honest. It depends on the person who has decided not to trust anymore. Though they may be totally justified in their decision not to trust, as long as they choose not to, the relationship has no hope of survival and should be ended. If or when they decide to trust again, there is hope reborn” – Doe Zantamata


583. I honestly hate being on social media it make my brain feel cluttered.


584. “I thought when I get older/ I’d marry her, I told her/ Now I’m twenty-six, and I work in an office/ Nine till five’s not the best, I’ll be honest/ If I could change a single thing/ I’d make it me and not him. ” – Wilbur Soot, Song


585. “The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt


586. “There's nothing wrong with being different.”


587. It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.


588. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”


589. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”


590. “Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.”– St. Catherine of Sienna


591. “Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that’s capable of transporting you.” — Thomas Kretschmann


592. Thanks for being brutally honest with me, especially when I am being ridiculous.


593. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ” — Zig Ziglar


594. “I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just. um. It helps me. you know. like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.” ~ Jamie Foxx


595. “Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.” – Aaron Rodgers


596. If I look back at everything I’ve done in life, you’re easily the best thing I’ve ever created. It’s honestly a miracle that I was able to have a son as delightful and genuine as you.


597. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali


598. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” — Wayne W. Dyer


599. “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies.”


600. “It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift.” – Brené Brown


601. “You could have been honest but instead you chose a lie over me.”


602. “You can’t color your world with someone else’s paint.” ― Israelmore Ayivor


603. “My trouble was I took everything Buddy Willard told me as the honest-to-God truth.”


604. “Which leaves us only with stupid act number three—skipping the Hitler Youth meetings. He didn’t stop going right away. purely to show Deutscher that he wasn’t afraid of him. but after another few weeks. Rudy ceased his involvement altogether. Dressed proudly in his uniform. he exited Himmel Street and kept walking . . . ”


605. I like people who enjoy life. I can’t stand women who play games. I lose interest very quickly. I prefer up-front honesty. – Ray Fearon


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


607. “Whatever you want to do. do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Lando


608. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia


609. “Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.” — Adrienne Rich


610. “Money can’t buy happiness? Habibi come to Dubai.” Anonymous


611. “I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.” — Summer Altice


612. “Money is such an amazing teacher. What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.” – Suze Orman


613. “To believe in something. and not to live it. is dishonest.”


614. “To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing.” – Will Durant


615. “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”


616. “How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery


617. “Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.” – Christian Nestell Bovee


618. “It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.” – Benjamin Franklin


619. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”


620. “When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.” – Heidi Reagan


621. “Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.”―Steve Maraboli


622. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.


623. For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships. – Lauren Jauregui


624. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”


625. “An honest day’s work by a blue-collar worker is worth more than a thousand hours of the CEO’s time.” ― Chris Gardner


626. Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating. – David Shields


627. “Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest, I never feel stupid. And when I am honest, I am automatically humble.” — Hugh Prather


628. Friendship is not threatened by honest criticism. It is strengthened. – Charles Swindoll


629. “I want people to be nicer to each other. I guess that’s pretty ambitious.” – Taylor Swift


630. Finding strength within.


631. An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. – Mark Twain


632. “The President of the United States is not subject to quite the same test of political courage as a Senator.”


633. True honesty is hard. Throughout my career, I’ve faced moments where I’ve needed to take an honest look at myself and face some very uncomfortable realities. – Les Brown


634. I am sick of liars and want to stand up for honesty and integrity, so I have taken all my lies down from the wall and put them in a box. I’m not doing it for you; I’m doing it for me.


635. ...To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends...This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success


636. “She’s a badass with a good heart. Soft but strong. Unapologetic and honest. She’s the type of woman you go to war beside; the type of woman you marry.” –R.H. Sin


637. “Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.” — Dalton Trumbo


638. “Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose. in the other everything to gain.” – Diane de Poitiers


639. “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” Richard Bach


640. “He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises. as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads. — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond. just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.” – The Buddha (Sutta Nipata)


641. “I’m proud to be autistic and on the rainbow spectrum! Our honesty, direct focus, intense love for our passions, and a deep sense of injustice are traits that the world needs right now.” — Dara McAnulty


642. I could never be a politician, I have a problem of too often being honest. – Carl R White


643. “You can be anything or anyone you want. just act like it.” -Lucille Ball


644. “The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.” — Plutarch


645. “Do not be afraid to show the world who you are and what you are capable of. You are always enough for the right people. All those who do not see how great you are are not worth the bother.” – Dr Anil Kr Sinha


646. “The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend. ” ― Stephen Richards


647. “A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.”


648. “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” -John Gerzema


649. “There is hero in everyone. Never doubt who you are.” – Lailah Gifty Akita


650. “The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.” – Suze Orman


651. “I will nuture relationships with positive people.”


652. “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” – Napoleon Bonaparte


653. “Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them.” – Ty Howard


654. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”


655. Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that's about it, honestly. — Pat McAfee


656. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. – Thomas Jefferson


657. “When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.


658. "Happy Wednesday, Fam! Dream big, live courageously, communicate honestly, be mindful, act with kindness, and spread love today, and every day!” ― Tracey Edmonds


659. “I wish you had been more honest with me. It doesn’t feel great.”


660. “I am terrified of being honest”


661. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” — Dennis Prager


662. “We are hardwired to connect with others. It’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.”


663. Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother. Jada – Pinkett Smith


664. "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."


665. “We all wear masks. and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”– Andre Berthiaume


666. Be honest, for God is the helper of honest people. Avoid telling lies since it will ruin your faith. Know that honest people are on the verge of nobility and honor, while liars are on the verge of collapse and destruction. – Imam Ali RA


667. You showed us to be kind and live an honest life. Your lessons will always be in us. RIP!


668. “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”


669. Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. - Wendy Wasserstein.


670. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” — Walter Anderson


671. “Honesty. like any inclination. can become a ruling passion. a monomania almost.”


672. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” ― Dr. Seuss


673. “Without respect, Love is lost. Without caring, Love is boring. Without honesty, Love is unhappy. Without trust, Love is unstable.”


674. “Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.” – Scarlett Thomas


675. “It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times.”


676. “Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.”


677. “Loyalty is all that matters to me. If you’re an honest person, I’ll be your friend for life. I don’t waste time with people who are fake or people who are trying to use you to get something. I don’t care about people who are afraid to say what they think.” – Clint Malarchuk, The Crazy Game


678. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia


679. “Every one 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.”


680. Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin


681. “I would rather be damned by my honesty. than caged by my lies.”


682. “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson


683. No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare


684. "The game is to be where you are. Be it honestly and as consciously as you know how.”


685. “Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.”


686. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. - Author: Rufus Sewell


687. “An honest concern for others is the key factor in improving our day to day lives. When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity. Healthy, happy families and a healthy peaceful nation are dependent on warm-heartedness.” Dalai Lama


688. “When you find out who you are. you find out what you need.” – Mama Odie


689. “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


690. If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. – Ryan Holiday


691. “Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.”


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


693. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” —Allen Ginsberg


694. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.


695. “If you are different. there are times you don’t notice the millions of people who accept who you are. but only notice that one person who doesn’t.” – Jodi Picoult


696. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”


697. “The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.


698. “6+3=9 but so does 5+4. The way you do things isn’t always the only way to do them. Respect other people’s way of thinking.” – Will Smith


699. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens


700. “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say, and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth. ”

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