Honest
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am', because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.