Best 2699 quotes in «honesty quotes» category

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Honesty is very sexy.

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more complex because even moderate use can have unforeseen consequences.

Honesty's the best policy.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.

Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.