Best 2699 quotes in «honesty quotes» category

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

No honest man will argue on every side

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.