Honesty

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  • I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
        Henry Miller   Best?
  • Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
        Thorstein Veblen   Best?
  • To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
        William Wordsworth   Best?
  • Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you--look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour?
        Henry James   Best?
  • To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
        Evan Esar   Best?
  • There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
        Baron Rothschild   Best?
  • The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
        David Thomas   Best?
  • Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
        William Cowper   Best?
  • They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
        Sallust   Best?
  • It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
        Alfred Alder   Best?
  • To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
        Jean Jacques Rousseau   Best?
  • In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
        Meister Eckhart   Best?
  • Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
        Bourke Cockran   Best?
  • It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
        Henry Brougham   Best?
  • All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • What power has law where only money rules.
        Gaius Petronius   Best?
  • Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
        Phillip Chesterfield   Best?
  • Compassion is the basis of all morality.
        Arthur Schopenhauer   Best?
  • Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
        Hobart Brown   Best?
  • The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
        David Richerby   Best?
  • Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
        Georgia O'Keeffe   Best?
  • Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
        George Burns   Best?
  • For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
        David H. Lawrence   Best?
  • Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
        Jess Lair   Best?
  • Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
        Edgar Lee Masters   Best?
  • We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
        Colton   Best?
  • Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
        Philip Crosby   Best?
  • Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
        Will Smith   Best?
  • Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
        John Steinbeck   Best?
  • General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
        Robert J. Sawyer   Best?
  • Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
        Donald Trump   Best?
  • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
        Lana Turner   Best?
  • Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
        Zig Ziglar   Best?
  • Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man.
        J. Paul Getty   Best?
  • You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail.
        Josh Billings   Best?

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