Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Robert Mueller, as Mr. Honest and as Mr. Sophisticated and as Mr. Integrity, as Mr. Cultured, as Mr. Elite, as Mr. Mannered knows full well there's nothing here, knows that there is no collusion, knows that there is no obstruction of justice, knows that if anybody is working with the Russians, it was not Donald Trump.

Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.