Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacy London

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Soren Kierkegaard

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Marcus Aurelius

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Sheryl Crow

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Shia LaBeouf

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Sharon Kay Penman

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

Shannen Doherty

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.

Taylor Swift

In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Tamar Braxton

I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.

Talib Kweli

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Tony Parsons

It can't always be a honeymoon

Thucydides

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

Robert A. Heinlein

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Robert A. Heinlein

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Rihanna

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

Tim O'Brien

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tiger Woods

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Tom Stoppard

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

Tom Perrotta

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Tom Brady

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.

TobyMac

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Sam Houston

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Tammy Bruce

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Tad Williams

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

T Bone Burnett

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

Sylvia Plath

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Roscoe Bartlett

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

Tom Ford

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.