Honesty Quotes

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.

Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

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

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

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.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

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.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Not me. Give me honesty anytime.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a persona for the artwork with their honesty. That's really good.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

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

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.

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.

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.