HONESTY - (TRUST)

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“Keep praying for us, for we trust we have an honest conscience, as we wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all things.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:18The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln

You can’t trust dogs to watch your food. – Patrick – (age 10)

If you steal an idea, you’re a thief—if you steel many, it’s research. – Anonymous, maybe

If the science of global warming is a slam dunk, why are CRU (Climate Research Unit) researchers keen on hiding the research? – Jonah Goldberg – USA Today - 1998

I work for myself, which is fun, unless I call in sick.  I know I’m lying. – Rita Rudner

Morality is truth in full bloom. – Victor Hugo

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. – Bill Clinton

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. – Aristotle

The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife. – Shelley Winters

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth, than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino

By and large, language is a tool for concealing truth. – George Carlin

Character is who we are in the dark. – Dwight L. Moody

Honesty, for the most part, is less profitable than dishonesty. – Plato

The only way you can control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. –Tom Hanks

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. – Winston Churchill

The longer one keeps a secret, the riskier the outcome. – Gary Pulliam

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“Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man who cannot bring salvation.”– King David – Ps 146:3The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be the truth always follows when honesty leads the way. But the truth can be asserted when one is dishonest as well. –  Eric Parslow

Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin

If our personal security is shaken by deception, lives can be shattered.  Trust is impossible without truth. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVING EACH OTHER

Whoever is careless with the truth is small matters cannot be trusted in important matters. – Albert Einstein

“The wolves became lambs. Such transformations occur in last agonies of life. However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Honesty is the sexiest thing a man can give a woman. – Debra Messing

I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney                      

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. – Warren Buffett.

The best proof of love is trust. – Dr. Joyce Brothers                                

Honesty is when you’re truthful with others—integrity is when you’re truthful with yourself—and with God. – Gary Pulliam

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

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

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it’s also important to be right. – Winston Churchill

I saved a girl from being attacked last night.  I controlled myself. – Rodney Dangerfield

Mistakes are the usual bridges between inexperience and wisdom. – Phyllis Therous

It has been my experience that folks with no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln     

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is the best defense. – Steve Landesburg

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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“I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.” – Jesus Christ – John 14:6 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES         

There is no right way to do something wrong. – Unknown

Beware of the woman who thinks much of her glory, but little of her reputation. – Victor Hugo

It’s very sad when we are honest, occasionally. – Gary Pulliam

It’s not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful. – J. J. Rosseau

Whoever sets himself up as a Judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein

Confession, alas, is the new handshake. – Richard D. Rosen           

Success is always temporary.  When it’s all said and done, the only thing you have left is your character. – Vince Gill

I do not know what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in the now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst a great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. – Oscar Wilde

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott – MARMION

The confession of evil works is the beginning of good works. – Augustine of Hippo

My father always said, “Never trust anyone who’s TV is bigger than the book shelf.”  So I make sure I read. – Emilie Clarke

I hope we get credit for all the times we resisted temptation. – Gary Pulliam

The best way to trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest Hemingway

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. – Stephen King

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Trust is the glue of life.  It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication.  It is the fundamental principle that holds all relationships. – Stephen Covey

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