Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

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

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

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

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

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.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

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

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

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.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.

Sometimes in life, my failures speak louder than my victories and I need to be constantly reminded that though my enemies surround me, my God surrounds my enemies. If we're truly honest, we've had to mentally battle failures or fears more than once in our lives.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.