Honest Quotes
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.
To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.
Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic form.
I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.
In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.
I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.
Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think hes a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.
I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.