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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Hazlitt
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Joni Mitchell
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11
Bible
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
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Sam Houston
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor Hugo
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Tell the truth or trump - but get the trick
Mark Twain
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob Dylan
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
Edward Frederic Benson
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles Swindoll
