Honest Quotes

Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Women love an honest man.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

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

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

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

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.