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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Seek not the favour of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means.

— Immanuel Kant

Honesty is the best policy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.

— C. S. Lewis

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

— Abraham Lincoln

Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

This above all: to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare

By a lie, a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

— Immanuel Kant

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.

— William Shakespeare

Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not.

Honesty is the best policy in all dealings of life.

— English Proverb

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

— Cicero

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

— Virginia Woolf

A man's word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

— Korean Proverb

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

— Emily Dickinson

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

— Alexander Pope

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

— Samuel Johnson

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

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