Monday, January 24, 2011

Honesty

January is the month of honesty.  We can talk and talk about honesty.  Would we speak honestly?  I am learning that honesty is more than not telling a lie. I find it hardest to be honest with myself, but that is where it must start.  Honesty is:

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Author: Proverbs 24:26

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
Author: Sir Walter Scott

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Author: John Ruskin

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Author: Henry David Thoreau

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Author: Spencer Johnson

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.
Author: Source Unknown

An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Author: Alexander Pope

Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Author: Leah Arendt

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Author: Robert Burns

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Author: Merry Browne

Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
Author: American Proverb

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
Author: John F. Dodge

No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Author: Brigham Young

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Author: Judith Martin

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
Author: Joseph Sugarman



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