Work Honesty Quotes

#1. The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

Anne Applebaum

#2. Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

Charlie Munger

#3. A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

Nelson Mandela

#4. That hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.

Emily Giffin

#5. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

Michael Dorris

#6. The law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.

Patti Smith

#7. Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#8. There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.

Hilma Wolitzer

#9. Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

Paul Auster

#10. Play the work with no innuendo - just honesty. Trust will follow.

James Kerr

#11. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema

#12. As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

Anderson Cooper

#13. Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.

Milton S. Hershey

#14. The human body is the best work of art.

Jess C. Scott

#15. I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#16. If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.
[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

Scott Lynch

#17. Wendell Berry in "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer." "I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work." Ethan

Mark Sundeen

#18. In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Criss Jami

#19. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

Steven Levitan

#20. The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

Andy Reid

#21. Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work! Subconsciously, we should be constantly asking ourselves this question: Do I need to freak out about this?

Ryan Holiday

#22. As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#23. My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Tagg Romney

#24. It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

Philip Pullman

#25. Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

Joe Walsh

#26. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.

Colin Farrell

#27. Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

Adyashanti

#28. Love cost its like working a full time job you got to put work and effort into it,and that's why it fails with a lot of people because they on the job part time !!! #GeminiStatus

Jojo1980

#29. It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.

Christopher Nolan

#30. My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

Lucy Walker

#31. Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.

Morgan Matson

#32. In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

William Faulkner

#34. In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Robert McKee

#35. The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#36. Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

H. David Burton

#37. If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

Michele Zackheim

#38. Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Abraham Maslow

#39. A good life is built on strong, solid values such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#40. Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Crystal Reed

#41. My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Martha Beck

#42. You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Crowell

#43. I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

Shashi Tharoor

#44. The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Azim Premji

#45. Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

Star Jones

#46. Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich

#47. I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

Charlie Sheen

#48. To my clients, past and present, because I admire their courage, honesty, hope, and hard work".

Linda N. Edelstein

#49. Things work out better when you're straight up.

Kate Jacobs

#50. Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Phillips Brooks

#51. In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.

Anupam Kher

#52. Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

Leo Baeck

#53. Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.

Billy Graham

#54. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.

Derek Landy

#55. Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life's work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

#56. I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#57. My father had a very simple view of life: you don't get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

Grace Kelly

#58. Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

Reba McEntire

#59. Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.

Byrd Baggett

#61. The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Kevin Spacey

#62. A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Jose Marti

#63. Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

Duff McKagan

#64. We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty ...

Evo Morales

#65. Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.

Jose Parla

#66. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Erica Tazel

#67. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Kenneth Logan

#68. See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#69. honesty is hard work.

Spider Robinson

#70. All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

IO Tillett Wright

#71. Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted.

Eraldo Banovac

#72. Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#73. The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself!

Avijeet Das

#74. In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.

Madison Smartt Bell

#75. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

#76. I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

Nora Ephron

#77. I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Alice Sebold

#78. I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

Dolly Parton