#honesty

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#contest #enter #home #honesty #i

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #honesty #progress #progress

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Ray Blanton

#always #bring #does #essential #honesty

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. ↗

— John Hope

#american citizen #any #blessing #bring #citizen

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#cruelty #honesty #motivational

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#appreciated #artists #beat #because #believe

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#able #another #degree #dishonesty #entitled

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. ↗

— John Lyly

#length #life #measure #true #true measure

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate