Monday, September 3, 2007

Eighth Meeting: Honesty

Filipinos are naturally, ordinarily Honest PeopleOne of our most outstanding virtues as Filipinos, is the virtue of honesty.What is honesty?

*telling the truth

*do the right thing

*be trustworthy, loyal and truthful

Definition

mean uprightness of character or action. HONESTY implies a refusal to lie, steal, or deceive in any way.

quotation in honesty:

*It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

*If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

*Who lies for you will lie against you.

*No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

*Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world

*A half truth is a whole lie.

*A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

*Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

*A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

*The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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