Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

Theodore Dreiser

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Marcus Garvey

I like honesty and fair play.

Kin Hubbard

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

Michael Steinhardt

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

Michael Parenti

The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

Chuck Hagel

be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.

Be honest with each other. Don't wait until after the marriage to surprise the other partner with a mountain of debt.

Kevin Pietersen

I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,

I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tournament. And we played like we wanted it tonight.

Rudyard Kipling

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

The first half, honestly and truly, we didn't do anything wrong. It seemed like offensively everything we did worked. It was just clicking.

Nandan Nilekani

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Mila Kunis

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Miguel Syjuco

Love and honesty don't mix.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph Addison

Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.

Joseph Addison

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Laura Linney

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

Lance Loud

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Lisa Ling

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

Johnny Depp

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

John Taylor

We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.

John Ray

The honester the man, the worse luck.

Laurence Sterne

How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

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.

Genevieve Bujold

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.