Cheating Quotations

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

We felt like we were cheating time a little bit right there. We knew we were putting ourselves in this position in 2002, but we had to take our shot at winning back-to-back. We could have done half of this cap-cutting last year, and it wouldn't have been this painful, but I don't think we would have had a real shot to get to the Super Bowl this season.

We're excited to try it against somebody else other than our defense. I think our defense is getting it down now and they're cheating it a little bit in drills.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.

I've never had a quarterback run-driven offense. We don't run designed plays where we snap the ball directly to the quarterback and he's just running it. If the defense is cheating and overcompensating for your running back, then the quarterback needs to keep (it) honest.