Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
I have found that great people do have in common...an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn't play very well to be quite honest. We were a little bit flat. Maybe we were worried about what happened to Victor, I'm not sure. We were just kind of stagnant on both ends.
His budget is tough medicine, no question about it. But it is also responsible and honest, and ultimately that's what the people of New Jersey expect.
Our expectations, to be honest, are limited, but we will make all necessary efforts to stop the situation becoming more acute and any move in the direction of use of force.
We can only win if the Iraqi people are able to play a greater role in peacekeeping, and we can only win if the president gives an honest assessment of what's really happening on the ground in Iraq. Staying the course and paying for good headlines are not a strategy. It's merely a bad excuse for not having a plan.
To be honest, that's the last body part I'm concerned about because it doesn't bother me in the least. There's no residual effect at all. Look, I'm here to play and if I go out there and something else gets hurt, that's part of football.
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
It's the truth. I'm not going to sidestep anything. It brings back memories of stupid stuff I've done in my life, and good stuff. It was honest.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
We definitely wanted him to pitch better (and make the big club. To be honest, he pitched his way out of the picture. His velocity was so-so and it looked like he was pitching away from the bat.
I had a natural birth and, to be honest, it was all over with quite quickly. I would say the whole thing took about three hours.
To be honest, this was probably one of the most nervous games I've ever pitched in. Coming off last year, the crowd was really into it. The guys on the other club have been kind of mouthing off, talking about how they were a better team than us. So I really wanted us to come out and do just what we did.
I was playing it for my best friend and I was like, 'I don't know if I should even bring it to Rilo Kiley, I don't know if it's necessarily appropriate,' ... But she convinced me to do so. It's just kind of a soulful, honest ballad.
I get the impression that Kato has been forthright and honest, and he's adding a lot of things that weren't addressed at the prosecution trial,
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
To be honest, this has turned out to be a more complicated transaction than we had expected. We want a win-win-win solution to preserve Yerkes, generate revenue for the university, and add value for the surrounding area.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of the state.
. . . the world prefers decorum to honesty.
He's basically a great character actor in a leading man's body. He's always kept that integrity. To me, it's something I find that's really amazing in this business.
The way to beat Bush is not to mimic him, as some of my opponents have done in opting out of the public financing system, but to fight for what is right, and show the country the consequences of George Bush's lack of integrity and his special interest sell-out,
To be honest, we've been asked by many different groups would we do a fund-raiser in our home, but we had long ago during the construction phase said the first event would be for United Way. United Way helps so many different groups and agencies.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
I have to be honest, I was not real confident.
I think some of the companies are trying to improve the situation. To be honest, if I can figure it out, I don't see why people who are leading some of the largest companies in the country shouldn't be able to figure it out as well.
We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schools. This trial should decide whether a school board can impose its religious views on other students.
We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.
The court finds that it is necessary to grant (Moody) a new trial because it finds the jury misconduct undermined the integrity of the jury deliberations and public confidence in their verdict,
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
These charges cross county lines, they cross judicial districts, and the integrity, reputation and public confidence in a statewide institution -- the University of Colorado -- is at stake,
At some point what will happen is we'll have business-practice statements and auditing of those business practices to ensure the integrity of your data.
Those numbers are staggering, and I can't believe the U.S. government can see those kind of figures. Why make criminals out of honest people
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
I read about the situation in Florida. This is the first time I've heard about it in Georgia, but that doesn't mean it hasn't occurred. The thieves always try to stay one jump ahead of the honest people.
That's the difference in the ball game, to be honest. We couldn't make free throws.
They're good, honest people out there.
Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
We started extremely well, we had our tails up and put them under pressure. If I'm honest, maybe the lack of firepower has cost us with losing Georgios at the weekend, but I won't make excuses.
To be honest, at first some of the guys had the mindset that they didn't want to play in the NIT. But this is another opportunity to play basketball again. We're trying to win a championship. It's not the Final Four, but it's the next best thing.
Honor your commitments with integrity.
Actually, I thought we looked more tired in our last two games. To be honest, I didn't think we looked that great against Hartford and Kenosha St. Joe's. I think I may have been pushing these guys a little too hard. So tonight I told them to just play your game. Play loose and have fun.
During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.
I think that team ... we were all one. I don't think any one guy deserves more credit than the next. You could probably take any one of those people all the way through from the ownership to Neil Smith, to Mike Keenan to our whole team there and you could take one person out of there and things might have been different. I say that in all honesty. We caught Lightning in a bottle.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
His velocity is picking up every week. He's got enough on it that he keeps them honest.
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
a symbol of integrity, courage and of high quality.
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