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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
In any relationship, only if both partners bring in emotional, financial commitment and honesty in equal measure, can there be harmony.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.
Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.
As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.
I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.
I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.
Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.
Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.
I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.
To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.
It doesn't matter if there are 5,000 or 500 people in the crowd, if you can sing well and with absolute honesty, people will love you back.
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.
You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.
Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.
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.
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.
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.