Honest Quotes

I actually think it's easier to be positive than negative, to be honest - it takes way more energy to stay mad at someone, for instance, than it does to say "i forgive you" and move on.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

I'll be honest with you. It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get 'The Tonight Show.'

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

Juno: Honest to blog?

I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest.

I said [ Barack Obama], the founder of ISIS. Obviously, I'm being sarcastic.But not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

I don't use much Obamacare, I must be honest with you.

All I can ask for is honest reporters.

I want to see an honest press.

We 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 hard to believe that Clinton could even be running. To be honest with you, with the e-mails and the crimes she committed, she shouldn't even be allowed to run for president.

That's what I want. Honest loyalty.

One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I run.

To be honest, I inherited a mess.ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

It's so important to the public to get an honest press. The press - the public doesn't believe you people anymore.

I want to do the right thing for the American people. And to be honest, secondarily, I want to do the right thing for the world.