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Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. There is no greatness there.
— Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.
— Marc Morris, Kings and Castles
being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantly work hard to achieve greatness.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success
— Fela Durotoye
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Encouraging others can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness.
— Rob Liano
I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.
— Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`.
— Chairman Mao
Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Impossible is nothing.
— Muhammad Ali
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.
— Russell H. Conwell
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now.
— Russell H. Conwell
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.
— Russell H. Conwell
You have a great name .. They must kill your name before they can kill you , cuz name is your idea , and ideas are bulletproofs :))
— Hamza wolf
Great men know how to control two things
—  their women and money.
Use your hater to make you greater!
— Habeeb Akande
There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
— Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
— Pat Conroy, Beach Music
In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other miserable beauties.
— Roman Payne
We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
— Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
— Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.
— Sanjo Jendayi
God is great, God is faithful".~R. Alan Woods [2103]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.
— Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.
— Hayley Williams
A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.
— Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas
I write because I'm free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I'm breathing,because I'd go crazy otherwise,because it's who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express my ideas.But most of all, I write for future generations.I write for love. I write to inspire.I write to encourage. I write for me.
— Nadège Richards
But what is great can only begin great.
— Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
— G.K. Chesterton, Robert Browning
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
— G.K. Chesterton
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.
— Ogwo David Emenike
The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.
— Jonathan Malley
Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make hime great in the eyes of others.
— Jawe Querimit
The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.
— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.
— Nadège Richards
Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make him great in the eyes of others.
— Jawe Campos
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
— Albert Einstein
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...
— Leo Tolstoy
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
— Charles Dickens
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
— Barbara De Angelis
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing
—  my conscience.
If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kr
— Scott Lynch
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
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, Revolutionary Road
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
— Spencer Johnson
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
— Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kello
— Stacia Kane
There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.
— Mark Twain
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
— Tennessee Williams
Am I glowing?""Like a Christmas tree.""Not just the star?"The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
— Warren Buffett
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
— James E. Faust
The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.
— Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
— William Faulkner
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
— Sam Harris
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
— Norman Vincent Peale
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Upon the Midnight Clear
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
— Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.
— Paul Wellstone
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
— Mark Twain
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You cannot con an honest man.
— Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie. 
— James Patterson
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
— Omega Maverick, Gothic Inferno
Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over. 
— Ann Brashares, The Last Summer
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not fromthe truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.-Jace Wayland
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.
— Ralph Moody
There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
— Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
What a fool honesty is.
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
— Azar Nafisi
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?
— Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
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, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
— Enid Blyton, Summer Term at St Clare's
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
— Ally Condie, Matched
Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
— James  Jones, From Here to Eternity
It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.
— Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business
Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.
— Megan Wilson
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
— M.J. Rose, Lying In Bed
Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.
— Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.
— Stephen King
Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]
— Chuck Palahniuk
Honesty's the best policy.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
— Jessica Zafra, The 500 People You Meet in Hell
Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.
— Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Mercy
You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
You look like shit." Honesty is important in any relationship.
— Gordon Andrews, Curran
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
— Taylor Mali
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
— Patricia Highsmith
The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.
— Mel Odom, The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures
Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
— James Poniewozik
I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.
— Andrea Speed, Bloodlines
There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
— Tim O'Brien
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...
— Jesse Ventura
I thought about keeping the money," Ove whispered at long last, and took his father's hand in a firmer grip, as if he was afraid of letting go."I know," said his father, and squeezed his hand a little harder."But I knew you would hand it in, and I knew a person like Tom wouldn't," said Ove.His father nodded. And not another word was said about it.Had Ove been the sort of man who contemplated how and when one became the sort of man one was, he might have said this was the day he learned that right has to be right. But he wasn't one to dwell on things like that. He contented himself with remembering that on this day he'd decided to be as little unlike his father as possible.
— A Man Called Ove
You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?
— Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct
The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons.
— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
— Benjamin Franklin
A better man wouldn’t play this ‘sweethearts’ game with her when he knew very well it couldn’t lead to more.But he wasn’t a better man. He was Colin Sandhurst, reckless, incorrigible rogue—and damn it, he couldn’t resist. He wanted to amuse her, spoil her, feed her sweets and delicacies. Steal a kiss or two, when she wasn’t expecting it. He wanted to be a besotted young buck squiring his girl around the fair.In other words, he wanted to live honestly. Just for the day.
— Tessa Dare, A Week to Be Wicked
I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to
—  surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
— Veronica Roth
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
— Albert Einstein
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
— William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.
— T.M. Brenner
Things work out better when you're straight up.
— Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club
It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.
— Fuyumi Soryo
Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.
— Firoozeh Dumas
It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. ("“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)
— William Beckford, The Episodes of Vathek
Honesty is all I've got," she said finally, speaking in a low voice. "I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word." Her chin rose. "When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.
— Maggie Osborne, The Promise of Jenny Jones
Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.
— Veronica Roth
She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.
— Roddy Doyle, Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers
For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.
— Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Romans
I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
— Ricky Ponting
(I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.
— Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.
— Becky Allen, Bound by Blood and Sand
And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.
— Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
— Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care.
— Briana Blair
When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74
— Ray A., Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety
Some people come to Morganville and collapse,” Michael said as he put the car in motion. “I’ve seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just—bloom. You’re one of those.” Claire didn’t feel especially bloomy. “So you’re saying I thrive on chaos.
— Rachel Caine, Fade Out
[Rayleen talking to Billy.] "Grace is thriving here, and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that can come take it up with me.""Thank God," Billy said, "because I really hate it when people come take things up with ME.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, Don't Let Me Go
Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.
— Junot Díaz, Drown
But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.
— Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.
— Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor
In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.
— Gordon Lish
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
— Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.
— Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.
— Richie Norton
There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are usually honest, even the bastards among them.
— Hassan Blasim, The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
...God expects every man to be what he claims to be. If we say things we do not believe, and profess things we do not feel, and lay claim to things we do not possess, we are tricksters and deceivers, causing mischief and confusion in the world.
— Charles Jefferson, The character of Jesus
Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.
— Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now
I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922
People don't like it when you say real things.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
When a 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. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
— Harry Frankfurt
The easy truth is as much a lie as any.
— Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you.
— Steve Maraboli
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 (Giovanni)
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
You believe what you do.
— Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
Honesty is love but deception is hatred.
— Ahmed Mayouf
All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?
— Keith R.A. DeCandido, The Klingon Art of War
Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.
— Danielle LaPorte, White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another
...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
Sometimes Caesar gets killed cos Brutus is an Honest Man.
— Talees Rizvi
Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.
— Corey Irwin
It's not your imperfections that make you attractive,it's your honesty about them that does.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions | Uns
I'd rather die than live without passion.
— Jeon Jungkook
it is your life and you have to live your life as you want but you must have courage to pay by your self for the life which you are living , if someone other is paying by their tears and grief for your enjoyment ,then you are living a shameful life.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
I know stating my observation aloud is considered fresh, an indiscrete come-on, but frankly I think more people should hear the truth about themselves. Screw what society thinks, right?” – Jack Buchanan
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Honesty Is Soul Of Love"Laila Majnu,Shirin Farhad,Romeo Juliet,These love stories are immortal,ideal love stories ,not because of love but because of honesty,honesty which they keep hold for their beloved,Love is there in every love story but not honesty so Only love story which has honesty its become Immortal and ideal love story.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not.
— Alden Bell, Exit Kingdom
Why should i blame world, if i get wrong to recognize true and real faces of people
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
— John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Never get your sense of worth from outside yourself. Never fall into the trap of thinking that who you are is not enough and that you need other people’s approval, love and validation in order to feel that you’re of value. Never allow external things, places, people and circumstances to determine or tell you how much you’re worth. It’s called self-worth, not others’ worth.
— Luminita D. Saviuc
Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........
— Tarif Naaz
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Elliot had always thought that touch was the most intimate way a man and a woman could connect. A kiss. A hand across the base of the neck or a brush of fingertips against the small of the back. But if his thundering heart gave any indication, the moment of honesty Wren had shared in that single look made the air crackle with tension, of the kind he'd never known before.
— Kristy Cambron, The Illusionist's Apprentice
Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
— Orly Wahba, Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts
We all should practice to tell the truth and keep our promises, rather than trying to calculate possible pleasures, pains, and outcomes of our sayings in certain circumstances. Because we know that in general telling the truth and keeping promises will result in more happiness than lying and breaking promises.
— Prabidh
Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
— Hermann Hesse, Crisis
Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
To admit what you see endangers principles.
— Arthur Miller, After the Fall
Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
— Hermann Hesse, Crisis
Your lies tells me as much about you, as do your truths.
— Mekael Shane
If you want to be a thought leader, market leader, or change the world - you have to give up the need to be liked. Telling people what they want to hear makes you popular. Telling people what they need to hear makes you relevant, empowering, and significant.Don't pander to the masses. Speak to the people you really want to reach and be honest. Challenge them to do more and become better. And know that if you're not attracting some haters - you're probably not doing something significant.
— Randy Gage, Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs
Keep your honesty as earth inside.Keep your focus as fire inside.Keep your determination as water inside.Keep your passion as blood inside.Most importantly keep love as it transcends all.At last keep your calm and winning is all yours. Embrace it!!!
— Jatin Nasa
As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.
— Jane L. Rosen, Nine Women, One Dress
Be honest first with yourself before with others since that changes the world.
— Ehsan Sehgal
[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Always tell the truth –– or the truth will tell on you. Honest.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn’t, really.
— Sonal Panse, The Sunshine Time: Season 1 Episode 5
The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.
— Sam Harris, Lying
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.
— Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child.
— Rachel M. Walls
I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.
— T.H. White, England Have My Bones
I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.
— Abeer Allan
Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?
— Edward W. Robertson, The Silver Thief
I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.
— Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.
— Megan Jenna
That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.
— Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?
— Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater
When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.
— Bryan Way, Life After: The Void
Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.
— Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.
— Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
— Jesus
All I am saying is that when you really, really like someone, when you feel like they’re the only person you want to see at the end of a long day, when you’ve really gotten to know them and you feel like they’ve gotten to know you, ask them. When you’re no longer interested in pursuing other relationships and other people, or when you’re ready to focus your attention on one person, or when you feel like you can’t stop smiling because this person sparked something within you, ask.
— Kim Quindlen
Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.
— Katherine Reay, Dear Mr. Knightley
It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity