If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

17.

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

18.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

19.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

20.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

23.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

24.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

25.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

27.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Robbins, Tim

31.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

32.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

33.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

34.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

36.

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

37.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

38.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

39.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

41.

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

42.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

43.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

45.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don