Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Marianne Williamson

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Mikhail Bakunin

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mark Hopkins

Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

Mikhail Bakunin

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Mike Comrie

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

R. D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Publilius Syrus

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

It is better to learn late than never.

Nelson Mandela

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Nelson Mandela

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Kinky Friedman

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Oprah Winfrey

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Olivia Munn

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is dignity without honesty?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Mark Twain

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Mark Twain

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Mark Twain

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Mark Twain

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Mark Twain

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Mark Twain

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Mark Twain

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Mark Twain

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Mark Twain

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Mark Twain

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Mark Twain

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Mark Twain

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Leonardo DiCaprio

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.