Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Gitomer

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Jennifer Lawrence

I never studied acting, yet the first time I auditioned and did a cold reading, I surprised everyone for my honesty and limpidity. They told me I could play any role because I have no walls, I don’t put anything between me and the character I have to play.

Jeffrey Sachs

The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health.

James A. Garfield

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

James A. Baldwin

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Jaden Smith

As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest,

Jacqueline McKenzie

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.

Jackie Gleason

One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!

Jackie Mason

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Jackson Browne

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

George Harrison

No truth could ever fear me.

Fulton J. Sheen

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Frank Ocean

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

Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

George Carman

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Christopher Darden

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Christina Aguilera

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Ford Frick

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Fran Lebowitz

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

Have the strength to be an honest person.

George Washington

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

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

George Orwell

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Franz Grillparzer

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Frank Zappa

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Jeanette Winterson

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

Jethro Tull

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.