Honest Quotes

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)