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.

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.

Genevieve Bujold

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. 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.

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.

Henry Adams

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Henry George

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Henry George

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Manmohan Singh

When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.

Mahatma Gandhi

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

John Adams

The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.

John Adams

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

Jack Welch

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Callie Thorne

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

Adam Carolla

The God's honest truth is that I'm probably funnier, but he's smarter. Here's the thing about Stern -- he's really a smart guy. He's nutty. He's outrageous. He's all those things, but he's also a very smart guy.

Eric Hoffer

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

The honeymoon period of (Wells Fargo) we knew was going to have an impact.

You can see the competitive reaction quite honestly as an endorsement of the IBM strategy.

James Corden

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

James Altucher

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

James Altucher

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

James Altucher

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Allen

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

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.

John Ciardi

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.