Honest Quotes

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

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.

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

No honest man will argue on every side

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

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 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.

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!

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."

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

I'm usually quite honest about expressing what I feel but there are times when I let things pile up inside me and the hurt feelings take over.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

My favorite judge is Simon because he is brutally honest and he thinks I'm

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.