
An honest man is respected by all parties.
- Topic: Honesty, Negotiation, Respect
- Location: Hawaii, Kula, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
