Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

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.

Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

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's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

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

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.

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

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

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

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

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

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

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

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

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

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

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

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

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

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.

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!

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

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

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

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

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to be honest about these differences. And yet, whenever we quarrel with the Americans, it amounts to controversies over different interpretations of values we share. You can't say that about Russia. Vladimir Putin fundamentally questions Western values.

Give me an honest laugher.

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.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

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.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

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.