Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers.

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Getting old is the most the beautiful thing. I can't wait until I'm 60, to be honest, reading the newspaper. I don't know what I am going to do. I'll probably keep on being a novelist and maybe some theater piece, some dance piece, some music for films. It's exciting to grow.

Give me an honest laugher.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

Hip-hop has been so important in my work, because it speaks to the idea of money being tied to cultural capital in an honest and transparent way. When I was growing up in LA, money was equivalent to class, and it was a passport. Hip-hop emphasizes that, but Hollywood and show business bear it out. If you have money, there really is no barrier to social mobility. There are still social clubs in Newport where you can't get in even if you have money, but that is really rare.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Honest, I only cheat a leetle.

Honestly, Ive been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.