If you stick to what the Bible teaches, then you have everything you need: honesty, openness, friendliness, respect, tolerance, and much more, which is often lost nowadays.
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.
In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Honesty is the best policy.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
