Honesty Quotes

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

With death comes honesty.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

There are no degrees of honesty.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.