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Quotes about honesty
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. (Plato Dana)
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. (Plato Dana)
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. (Plato Dana)
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. (Plato Dana)
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. (Plato Dana)
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. (Plato Dana)
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. (Plato Dana)
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing. (Plato Dana)
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. (Plato Dana)
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. (Plato Dana)
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? (Plato Dana)
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. (Plato Dana)
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. (Plato Dana)
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else. (Plato Dana)
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. (Plato Dana)
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity. (Plato Dana)
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. (Plato Dana)
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. (Plato Dana)
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. (Plato Dana)
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. (Plato Dana)
When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. (Plato Dana)
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. (Plato Dana)
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. (Plato Dana)
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. (Plato Dana)
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. (Plato Dana)
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