Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Nightingale

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Dito Montiel

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Abdul Kalam

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

Abraham Lincoln

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest

She is a thief. A thief is not an honest person.

Edward Norton

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

We have a record of one sale where he shipped 10,000 pounds of honey to New York City. It wasn't a small operation.

Britney Spears

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

Arthur Miller

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Dennis Prager

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Debra Messing

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Aristotle

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

We're looking at every offer we get and are very honest with people. People have been very good. They understand.

We're just going to make them more honest out here.

Life is like a taste of honey, sour, bitter, spice, salty. Hope you will taste the honey one day....... SOON !

George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair

Adam Levine

To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a collaboration because the song was written.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Adam Clayton

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Samuel Butler

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Albert Einstein

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Albert Pike

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.