Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have the answer. And if you don't, then you just be honest and say 'I don't know' and then you discuss it. So, working with the actors is fine.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

Women love an honest man.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

You cannot con an honest man.

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.