It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay


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I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
W. KELLY GRIFFITH
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
KIN HUBBARD
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
KIN HUBBARD
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
VANESSA FERLITO
I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
KIN HUBBARD
To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
NATE TORRENCE
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
LIAM NEESON
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
NEVIL SHUTE
I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
KATHY BATES
I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
SHIRLEY MANSON
It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
NAVAL RAVIKANT
To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
MALLORY JANSEN
I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH
I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
BILL TOOMEY
God does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays
ANNE OF AUSTRIA
Entrepreneurship pays,even when your employer refuses to pay.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much...
HAROLD WILSON
Life pays for performance; you get out of it what you pay forward.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
HANNAH TOINTON
To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
SHAWN MENDES
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
JASPER FFORDE
I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
THOMAS KELLER
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied sug...
JOHN BATES CLARK
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
TAYLOR KINNEY
It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
SHANIA TWAIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
PRINCE WILLIAM
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
NICK FLYNN
I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
JONNY LEE MILLER
To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
CHARLI XCX
I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the ...
STORMZY
I never really look too far ahead, to be honest.
CASEY STONER
I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
CHARLIE WATTS
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
PROVERB
Slow down, and pay attention.
LARRY ROHR
There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for i...
TANA FRENCH
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afra...
TAMAR BRAXTON
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
ABBIE CORNISH
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
SERJ TANKIAN
You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your ...
MILA KUNIS
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
LINCOLN STEFFENS
If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
AKSEL HENNIE
I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.
ALAN SHEARER
To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
DAVE FRANCO
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
THOMAS LEONARD
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share f...
JUDY ANDERSON
I have no particular objection to death by its very nature; it pays all bills.
VIKRANT PARSAI
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Love is the heart’s best tenant; it always pays its rent on time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY
It pays to be a fee fiend.
SUZE ORMAN
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
LIL' KIM
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don...
YAYA TOURE
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
RAFAEL NADAL
I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the...
GARTH DAVIS
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY
I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a ...
MATT BOMER
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
ROBERT WYATT
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
ELIA KAZAN
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
CAMPBELL BROWN
My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I ...
CHARLIE BELL
No one pays me to be nice.
AARON ALLSTON
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you...
OGDEN NASH
I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER
If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your wa...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

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SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it is...
LARRY STARKEY
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a differen...
DANICA PATRICK
I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff...
ADELAIDE KANE
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY
I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what...
ADAM WINGARD
I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactles...
DAVID DAVIS
We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid d...
CHANDLER WOODCOCK
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
It may be slow, but it's perfectly usable.
KEVIN MCGEHEE
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
I'm doing something for myself. I'd like to get away from this, but it pays the bills. So until I fi...
DON VINCENT
I love being honest not because i want to be a good person but because good people knows what it fee...
GUNDO MULAUDZI
People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
JOEY ADAMS
My son pays about $70 or $80 a week for gas and I pay about $10 a week to ride the bus.
JACKIE JOHNSON
One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD

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