Honest Quotes

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

Honesty is all you need.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

I like honest men of all colors.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist