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

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.

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

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

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

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.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

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

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.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

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

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

To be honest, I inherited a mess.ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all.

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.