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"I'm just a weapon of the god."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Humility, Spirituality, Modesty, Honesty
2

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Oliver Cromwell

Honesty
3

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Ovid

Honesty
4

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Honesty
5

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

William James

Honesty
6

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Honesty
7

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

Honesty
8

Be prepared and be honest.

John Wooden

Honesty
9

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty
10

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Honesty
11

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Honesty
12

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

Honesty
13

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Honesty
14

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Billy Graham

Honesty
15

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

Honesty
16

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

James Allen

Honesty
17

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

Honesty
18

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

Honesty
19

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

Honesty
20

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Honesty
21

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Honesty
22

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

Honesty
23

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

Honesty
24

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

Honesty
25

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Honesty
26

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty
27

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.

Josh Billings

Honesty
28

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Honesty
29

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

Honesty
30

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lee Iacocca

Honesty
31

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Honesty
32

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.

Orison Swett Marden

Honesty
33

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

Honesty
34

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

Honesty
35

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

Honesty
36

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty
37

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

Honesty
38

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.

Honesty
39

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Honesty
40

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty
41

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty
42

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

Honesty
43

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Walter Raleigh

Honesty
44

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Honesty
45

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Honesty
46

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Honesty
47

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

Honesty
48

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

David Mamet

Honesty
49

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Honesty
50

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

Honesty
51

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Leo Buscaglia

Honesty
52

There is no right way to do something wrong.

Honesty
53

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Groucho Marx

Honesty
54

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Orison Swett Marden

Honesty
55

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

Honesty
56

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

Honesty
57

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

Honesty
58

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.

Orison Swett Marden

Honesty
59

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.

Napoleon Hill

Honesty
60

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Honesty
61

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honesty
62

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Honesty
63

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Sidney Madwed

Honesty
64

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. -- Leviticus 19:11

Honesty
65

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

Honesty

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"I'm just a weapon of the god."

A few honest men are better than numbers.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Be prepared and be honest.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

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.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

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.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. -- Leviticus 19:11

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.