Honest Quotes

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.

I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength. My heart is perfect so I think I'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God.

People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a local dog catcher election.

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

My husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.