Honesty Quotes

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

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

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

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

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

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

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

When all else fails, tell the truth.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.