It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.Walter Anderson
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.Ernest Hemingway
If you want to know something about yourself, sit on your bed one night and say, “What’s one thing I’m doing wrong, that I know I’m doing wrong, that I could fix, that I would fix?”Jordan B. Peterson
If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent, and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don’t get too emotional when things go against you.Walter Schloss
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.Arthur Brisbane
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.Charles Dickens
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.Miguel de Cervantes
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.Simon Sinek
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.Cornel West
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.Bruce Lee
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.Marilyn Monroe
I think cheerleading is kind of dumb. I didn't admit to my daughter that I was a cheerleader until she was past the age when I thought she might want to do it.Martha MacCallum
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.Mignon McLaughlin
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.William Blake
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.Horace Greeley
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.Orison Swett Marden
There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.Christopher Voss