Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to write my story, it's when I can read the story of others who are following Christ, who are committed, but just are still on the journey. They haven't arrived, and can be honest about that process.

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her.

To be honest, I'm usually totally stuck in my own bubble when it comes to the music I produce and the music I listen to, so I don't often have much of an interest about what's on trend or find myself having those conversations. I do find it interesting though, and you definitely hear batches of releases that all sound exactly the same released around the same time, and you can tell that a certain distinct type of track does especially well.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s any other show like ‘Doctor Who’ at all.

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.