Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Dolly Parton

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.

Dolly Parton

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

Dolly Parton

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

Diogenes

I am looking for an honest man.

Derek Luke

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

Dave Thomas

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

David A. Bednar

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

David A. Bednar

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

David A. Bednar

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

David Wenham

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

David Whyte

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

David O. McKay

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

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

Daryl Gates

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Colin Hanks

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

Colin Firth

The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing.

Dan Rather

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Dan Fogelberg

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

Dan Fogelberg

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

Cornel West

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

Cornel West

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cormac McCarthy

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Colum McCann

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

Davy Crockett

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

Curtis Armstrong

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Corey Hart

Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual’s inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination,

Corey Taylor

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Confucius

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

Confucius

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

Confucius

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

Confucius

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.