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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
I'm a big believer in honesty, and in this Instagram world, it's important to remember that not everyone's lives are perfect.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.