Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

Daniel Webster

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Dana Plato

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

David Levithan

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

David Blunkett

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

David Bowie

Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

Deepak Chopra

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

Anderson Cooper

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

Anna Quindlen

Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

Donald Trump

Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and Hillary Clinton.

Cillian Murphy

You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters [of 'Antropoid'] and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.

Andy Rooney

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

Darren Hayes

I think in some way, there aren't a lot of people making pop music with sincerity, ... We offer a slight alternative to that -- for people not getting the 'N Sync vibe. We have simple, honest music and a little something for everyone.

Pat Cooper

He is the most honest man you would ever want to meet in your life.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Edward Kennedy

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

He's been taking input on this from everyone. I honestly don't know what he's going to do.

Tyler Baze

He's a very honest horse and very nice to ride. Those other two races I won on him, once he switched leads then he really kicked. He's just so game.

Michael Dawson

I think it's honestly a mixed bag. When you install Windows on a Mac, it is going to be susceptible to the same viruses that plague any other Windows system.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

He was probably one of the most honest people I've ever run across.

Tom Crean

I thought our team learned something over the (Rutgers loss). They have learned to be honest when they don't play up to their standards.

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

I think it's very important for my team to know that as a young man I was influenced so much by Ron McBride, ... Players are a mirror of their coach. I can honestly say I tried to mirror his personality.

Robert Shapiro

He had too much to live for to honestly want to kill,

Marcus Camby

He honestly thinks we can win 60 ballgames.

Kemal Dervis

He is known to be an honest person who loves his country. I wish we could have worked together.

He has remained a responsible, diligent, open and honest young man.

Kevin Garnett

If it's anything different from that, then, at the end-of-the-season discussion, we have to talk about it. I don't want to go through another season like this, to be honest with you.