It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
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Related It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and di... SAMUEL SMILES If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Being honest does not necessarily make you rich but being dishonest always bankrupts one of characte... TROY J. GAINEY To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be ea... ANNE ELISABETH STENGL When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the hone... JOHNNY DEPP Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: the... FERNANDO BOTERO Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's ... JOHNNY DEPP It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanit... ALDIS HODGE What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to... ARISTOTLE Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow? MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interest... ANN BEATTIE Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H... GERMANY KENT He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep aw... OSCAR WILDE Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidentl... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL The Character of a Great Man won't change or be bought no matter what Money is offered, for the Grea... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For... CHARLES PEGUY The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For t... CHARLES PEGUY Must not lose you, must not lose eachother, I am telling you. You look at me with restraint, a kind ... MARIANA FULGER It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. VIRGINIA WOOLF You can not be a man of success and a man of destiny. For you to be one, you must not be another. WOHI PURANA That man that killed another man is no criminal nor should he be consider an evil man for his action... ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ev... NICHOLAS SPARKS The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For ... CHARLES PEGUY It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. QUINTILIAN I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. BRITTANY MURPHY A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. OVID Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time. SARAH KOENIG Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. HENRY FIELDING Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be wit... GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be wit... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very hone... GEORGE SAVILE You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your ... MILA KUNIS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will ... GOETHE Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... REBECCA HARDING DAVIS Be a man! Put on a mask! LJUPKA CVETANOVA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The mistake would be to think that Bush is a stupid man or somehow not responsible for his own actio... DANIEL SULLIVAN Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strengt... STEPHANIE LAHART There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the... RALPH MOODY It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the s... GEN. H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for i... MARK TWAIN Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth a... LEVI WOODBURY To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&... HANNAH TOINTON It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless. SUNDAY ADELAJA Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be ... JAMES MILL There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y... TIM ROTH We never want to be taken for granted, but our partners should be able to expect our honest loyalty.... CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re... STANISłAW LEM Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so neve... KEMI SOGUNLE It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy... ANTONIN ARTAUD Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Man...must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..... WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap. L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. L. RON HUBBARD He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. GEORGE BERKELEY I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, char... GERMANY KENT The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man. DIOGENES OF SINOPE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a gr... ENID BLYTON If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be l... HENRY DAVID THOREAU No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline m... JOHN S. BONNELL It is a challenge to create a character who always smiles and whose saccharine lines must be delive... DEBBY SHOUN An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. WILLIAM HAZLITT The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may ... ANNA SPENCER The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may ... ANNA GARLIN SPENCER Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time. DAN ARIELY Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the hone... JACK SPARROW To be honest, I have a hard time imagining college golf without Mike Holder coaching at OSU. He is r... FRED WARREN
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