Honesty and Kindness

Honesty 

  1. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
  2. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.  Mark Twain
  3. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.  Oliver Wendell
  4. The truth needs so little rehearsal.  Barbara Kingsolver
  5. Truth fears no questions.  Author Unknown
  6. Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.  Hugh Prather
  7. Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie … there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.  Joseph Sugarman
  8. Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.  L. Ron Hubbard
  9. Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.  Mary MacCracken
  10. Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.  Brian Tracey
  11. I am a big believer in the ‘mirror test.’ All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you’ve done your best.  John McKay
  12. I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.  Lee Iacocca
  13. One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.  Benjamin Disraeli
  14. Our lives improve only when we take chances  and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.  Walter Anderson
  15. Slander cannot destroy an honest man  when the flood recedes the rock is there.  Chinese Proverbs
  16. The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.  James Allen
  17. Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.  Vince Poscente
  18. What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. When in doubt, tell the truth.  Mark Twain
  20. When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.  Bill Copeland
  21. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.  Mahatma Gandhi
  22. Honest hearts produce honest actions.  Brigham Young 

Kindness 

  1. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.  Og Mandino
  2. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.  Plato
  3. How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.  George Washington Carver
  4. Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.  Jesse Jackson
  5. A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.  William John Bennett
  6. A kind word is like a Spring day.  Russian Proverb
  7. Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.  Albert Schweitzer
  8. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.  Stephen Grellet
  9. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.  Mother Teresa
  10. Kindness gives birth to kindness.  Sophocles
  11. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.  Emanuel Swedenborg
  12. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.   Mark Twain
  13. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.  Lao Tzu
  14. Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.   Author Unknown
  15. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.  Mother Teresa
  16. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.  Barbara DeAngelis
  17. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.  Aesop
  18. Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.  Scott Adams
  19. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.  Kahlil Gibran
  20. When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.  Harold Kushner
  21. You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.  Publilius Syrus
  22. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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