Be Honest Quotes

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

I love insult, it's always honest.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.

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.

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

I love finding new talent, to be completely honest, and my opportunity that I got to do 'X Factor U.K.' was just incredible. I will never forget it.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

Being alone feels more honest.

If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

I wouldn't say anyone is 100% honest online. I don't see how it's even possible.

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

To be honest, if I had to pick somebody to be related to in sport, who's better than Lance Armstrong with what he's done for the sport and with his cancer foundation?