Honest Quotes

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

People just want honest music.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Just be honest with who you are. Don't pretend to be something you're not. Don't be a phony. Walk your talk. That's how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.