Honesty - Billy Joel

Honesty

Billy Joel

If you search for tenderness It isn't hard to find You can have the love you need to live But if you look for truthfulness You might just as well be blind It always seems to be so hard to give Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honesty is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you I can always find someone To say they sympathize If I wear my heart out on my sleeve But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honesty is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you I can find a lover I can find a friend I can have security until the bitter end Anyone can comfort me With promises again I know, I know When I'm deep inside of me Don't be too concerned I won't ask for nothin' while I'm gone But when I want sincerity Tell me where else can I turn 'Cause you're the one I depend upon Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honesty is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.

"The LORD detests lying lips, 

but he delights in people who are trustworthy."

Proverbs 12:22

Girl Scout makes honesty her policy for cookie sales

Charlotte McCourt, 11, felt compelled to follow Girl Scout law while selling the famous cookies: "I will do my best to be honest." As Steve Hartman reports, her honesty turned out to be the best policy.

Honesty always pays the highest dividends. Be honest and truthful at all times.

Jesus said,

"Thou shalt not bear false witness

against thy neighbor."

Look to God and Live

DAILY: Read the Bible and Pray

Do Good - Be Good - Feel Good

Be a CTR Person

CTR: Your Choice - Your Promise - Your Lifestyle

CTR: Always 100% 24/7

Honesty in Small Things

 Steve Haymore

"There are no degrees of honesty"

Sometimes we hear of people who are "very" honest, "mostly" honest, or even "a little" honest. 

However: 

"There are no degrees of honesty."

"Either we are honest or we aren't."

Marcos A. Aidukaitis

"Honesty: You Better Believe it"

BE HONEST!

A CTR Person is Honest!

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Look to God and Live

DAILY: Read the Bible and Pray

Do Good - Be Good - Feel Good

Be a CTR Person

CTR: Your Choice - Your Promise - Your Lifestyle

CTR: Always 100% 24/7

HOMELESS CHILD Finds BILLIONAIRE'S Wallet

What would you do if you found a billionaire's wallet?

In this Life Reels video, a single mother by the name of Melissa is struggling and currently looking for a job. She is lucky enough to get an interview at a local cafe, but unfortunately her living situation is very unstable and the person interviewing Melissa can sense that. Melissa tries to hide the fact that her and her child are about to be homeless because she is struggling financially. She ends up not getting the job and walks outside to find out her car is getting repossessed.

This means that Melissa and her child are now homeless and car-less. When Melissa encounters the repo man, Jacob ends up discovering something interesting on the floor. He later finds out that it is a wallet full of money. Melissa explains to Jacob that they shouldn't keep what isn't theirs, and that they must return the wallet. Melissa and her child later find out that this wallet belongs to a billionaire. Watch till the end to find out the shocking twist that happens!!!

Look to God and Live

Do Good - Be Good - Feel Good

CTR: Your Choice - Your Promise - Your Lifestyle

CTR: Always 100% 24/7

Your Honesty

 Steve Haymore

Honesty is always the best policy. When you tell one lie, it leads to another. Telling the truth makes you feel peace and at ease within your heart. You are thankful immediately and later on when you are totally honest. Your goal is to be perfectly honest. This is absolutely possible. All you need to do it to do it. Speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. People will trust you and depend on you. 

Being perfectly honest is a characteristic of a CTR Person. Be a CTR Person.

CTR Always 100% 24/7

Never Tell a Lie

Never Tell a Lie

Lead: Paul Hatch

My teacher told me I should never tell a lie

Because a lie will bring you trouble sure as pie

It's an awful thing to do, and it's true as true as true

You'll get caught and then you'll start to cry

You'll have a horrid, painful pounding in your head

And then you'll feel your face get hot and turn bright red

Then your heart will start to thump

In your throat you'll get a lump

And you'll feel so bad you'll wish that you could

lie right down and die

You're just better off to never tell a lie

Not even sometimes!

Remember, never, never tell a lie
No lie

When You Tell One Lie

When You Tell One Lie
Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another
So you tell two lies to cover each other
Then you tell three lies and, Oh Brother,
You're in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you
Then you tell five lies so folks won't suspect you
Then you tell six lies and you'll collect
A life filled with worries and fears

'Cause you can't remember how many lies you've told
And half the things you say aren't true
And sometime you'll slip up, you'll trip up and then
Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying
And each lie you tell will keep multiplying
'Till the whole wide world will know you're lying
Then you'll be
Suspected
Detected
Rejected
Neglected
Disliked
And you should!
When you lie, you're closing the door
On everything good

Never Tell a Lie (Lyrics by Paul Hatch)

Never Tell a Lie

Lead: Paul Hatch

My teacher told me I should never tell a lie

Because a lie will bring you trouble sure as pie

It's an awful thing to do, and it's true as true as true

You'll get caught and then you'll start to cry

You'll have a horrid, painful pounding in your head

And then you'll feel your face get hot and turn bright red

Then your heart will start to thump

In your throat you'll get a lump

And you'll feel so bad you'll wish that you could

lie right down and die

You're just better off to never tell a lie

Not even sometimes!

Remember, never, never tell a lie
No lie

When You Tell One Lie...........

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Barbara A. Lewis

Wife, mother, religious worker, national award-winning author and educator  

The Ten Tips

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth.
2. Tell someone about your commitment.
3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.
4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.
6. Don't indulge in little white lies.
7. Watch out for silent lies.
8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
9. Talk to yourself.
10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth.

Plagiarism Quiz

Plagiarism Quiz

1. (5 mins) Warm Up: Define plagiarism

 Take Plagiarism Quiz: http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism-quiz/

 

"No man will ever be totally free who is living a lie."

Marvin J. Ashton
 

"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."

Han Sujin

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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CTR HPHS Student Heroes

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HPHS Student Heroes

"We felt great about Choosing the Right!!

Hayro Boiton, Daniel Gonzales and others were recently inside an am/pm store buying a few snacks. They saw a man that appeared worried, scared, sad, and very depressed, as if something in his life was missing. At the time these students didn't pay any attention to this lonesome man, for they were more concerned about eating, satisfying their appetites; therefore, they purchased a few goodies and departed.

While walking away, Hayro noticed a truck with the initials C.T.R. on the side. Hayro got Daniel's attention and pointed to the C.T.R. The C.T.R. reminded them of CTR (Choose the Right) in Mr. Haymore's class. They chuckled a little and continued walking. All of a sudden, they saw a wallet laying on the ground near a car. Initially they were thrilled, excited, and they couldn't wait to see whether or not it had money inside. If it did have money, they were going to grab it all as quickly as possible and run before anyone saw or caught them.

Daniel picked up the wallet and said, "Maybe the guy back at am pm lost it." They opened the wallet, checking for money and other valuables. (Time for choosing CTR or CTW was immediately at hand) They could have stolen money, credit cards, and other valuables, giving them pleasure for only a few minutes. While searching the wallet, they saw the owner's ID card, and it was definitely the man they had seen back in the am/pm store. They thought about taking the money (CTR or CTW), but then they remembered CTR--they knew the right thing to do--return the wallet to the owner without stealing anything; therefore, they ran back to am/pm and caught up with the worried man just as he was leaving the store with his head hanging down toward the ground.

They presented the wallet to the man, the rightful owner, and he was so humble and grateful!  He was so thankful that his wallet was found and returned to him. He was deeply appreciative to Hayro, Daniel, and friends because they were honest enough to give it to him. The students were all smiles and were happy to see the worried man smile and being happy again. The man was thankful that these students chose the right.

Abraham Lincoln said, "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad." Hayro, Daniel, and friends said, "We felt GREAT about CHOOSING THE RIGHT!! 

Hayro, Daniel, and friends, I am so proud of you for your honorable acts of honesty and integrity, for Choosing the Right. For you and other classmates  who always Choose the Right, I commend all of you for Choosing the Right 24/7.

Sincerely,

Mr. Haymore, Teacher

Honesty is More Important than Victory

Davis calls penalty on himself, gives up shot at first PGA win

By Jay Busbee

“Honesty is more important than victory.”

Imagine standing on the edge of achieving your life's dream. You make a small mistake that will cost you your dream -- but if you don't say anything, you might just get away with it. Would you own up to the mistake, or would you keep quiet and hope for the best?

Brian Davis isn't the best-known name in golf -- or even the hundredth-best-known -- but after Sunday, he ought to move up the list a few notches. Davis was facing Jim Furyk in a playoff at the Verizon Heritage, and was trying to notch his first-ever PGA Tour win.

Davis's approach shot on the first hole of the playoff bounced off the green and nestled in among some weeds. (You can see the gunk he was hitting out of in that shot above.) When Davis tried to punch the ball up onto the green, his club may have grazed a stray weed on his backswing.

So what's the big deal? This: hitting any material around your ball during your backswing constitutes a violation of the rule against moving loose impediments, and is an immediate two-stroke penalty. And in a playoff, that means, in effect, game over.

Okay, you can think that's a silly penalty or whatever, but that's not the point of this story. The point is that Davis actually called the violation on himself.

"It was one of those things I thought I saw movement out of the corner of my eye," Davis said. "And I thought we’d check on TV, and indeed there was movement." Immediately after the shot, Davis called over a rules official, who conferred with television replays and confirmed the movement -- but movement which was only visible on slow-motion. Unbelievable.

As soon as the replays confirmed the violation, Davis conceded the victory to Furyk, who was somewhat stunned -- but, make no mistake, grateful for the win.

"To have the tournament come down that way is definitely not the way I wanted to win," Furyk said. "It’s obviously a tough loss for him and I respect and admire what he did."

Furyk took home  $1.03 million for the win. Davis won't exactly have to beg for change to get a ride home; he won $615,000 for second place. And he may have won much more than that by taking the honorable route.

To be sure, this isn't quite in the same category as J.P. Hayes, the golfer who disqualified himself from qualifying school after learning -- in his hotel room, all alone -- that he had played a nonqualifying ball; or Adam Van Houten, who cost his team an Ohio state title when he admitted signing an incorrect scorecard.  For starters, Davis's shot was on television, and while he could have "not noticed" the movement, the TV cameras still did, and someone might have called him on it later on.

But the bigger deal is this -- the guy gave away a chance at winning his first-ever PGA Tour event because he knew that in golf, honesty is more important than victory. It's a tough lesson to learn, but here's hoping he gets accolades -- and, perhaps, some sponsorship deals -- that more than make up for the victory he surrendered.

Your Honesty

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success."

Mary Kay Ash

Cornerstone: a stone representing the nominal starting place in the construction of a monumental building, usually carved with the date and laid with appropriate ceremonies.

I have been asked what I mean by word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape, but stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first!

--Karl G. Maeser

Episode 8: Eight Great Reasons to Tell the Truth

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