Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Libba Bray

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

Leslie Stephen

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Friedrich Schiller

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller

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

Lucan

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Shay Carl

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

Rafael Nadal

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick when Ash did it. "Besides, Rosa's still here. I know he's not walking around bare-assed with her on duty.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Nigel Kneale

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

N. T. Wright

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

John Winthrop

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Wilmot

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

John Wooden

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.

Callie Thorne

And so much honesty. People go to school for years and years to get that kind of honesty.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Sidney

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Marianne Moore

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...

Marianne Moore

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Meat Loaf

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

Max Lucado

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

May Sarton

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Caitlin Moran

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of uncertainty, to be honest with you, about how to proceed.