Honest Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Honest people have no ethics

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

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

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.