Honest Quotes

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

Be honest and humble enough to learn from everybody.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

Being truthful - that's what I admire the most in people. That's about it. As long as people are honest. Honest to themselves as well - more than anything else.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz. We're definitely breeding a new wave of jazz, for real.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees.