Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Shania Twain

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

Shania Twain

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

L. Ron Hubbard

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Laura Schlessinger

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

Laura Schlessinger

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Neil Postman

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Neil Peart

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

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.

Samuel Johnson

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Sachin Tendulkar

Hansie Cronje. Honestly. I got out to Hansie more than anyone.I never knew what to do with him

Ronald Reagan

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Robert Jordan

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Rodney Crowell

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Atkins

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

Roddy Doyle

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Roberto Bolano

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

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.

Sam Harris

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Sallust

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Russell Means

I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.

Russell Simmons

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Ronald Reagan

There are no degrees of honesty.

Ron Paul

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

Rory McIlroy

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

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?