Honest Quotes

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.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s any other show like ‘Doctor Who’ at all.

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.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

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.

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

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.

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.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

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.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.