Honesty Quotes

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

I feel honesty always works.

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.

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Honesty is very sexy.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

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

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

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

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

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.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Party honesty is party expediency.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Honesty will never break you.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.