Learn Through Quotations

“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”

“If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.”

“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is his own trap.”

“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”

“Opportunity can often sway even an honest man.”

“Two things are owed to truthfulness - lasting marriages and short friendships.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.”

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of Power over his fellow citizens.”

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

“We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.”

“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.”

“Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.”

“By the time you're his Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.”

“Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.”

“If you mess up, 'fess up.”

“Who excuses himself, accuses himself.”

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.”

“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”