Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

There's nobody who knows the left better than I know 'em. I know the left like I know every square inch of my gloriously naked body, not just the back of my hand. I know them. I know them better than they know themselves because they refuse to be honest about who they are really are and what they really believe, but I am.