Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Azim Premji

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

Azar Nafisi

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Ayelet Waldman

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

We honestly have not looked at this from an anti-importation perspective.

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.

Ed McMahon

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

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.

George Washington

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

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Whately

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

Tracy McMillan

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Alexander Siddig

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

Alexander Hamilton

Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.

Alexander Hamilton

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Adolf Hitler

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Anna Torv

To be really honest, I don't love the gym.

Ani Difranco

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Ani Difranco

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.