#honesty

If you want people to love you for who you are, take the mask off ↗

#honesty #mask #original #transparency #transparent

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #trust #inspirational

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. ↗

— Walter Scott

#honesty #inspirational #lies #truth #inspirational

When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. ↗

— Therese Benedict

#inspiration #love #relationships #sprituality #inspirational

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-true-to-yourself #honesty #inspiring-quotes #quotes-on-being-true-to-yourself #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide ↗