Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Mailer

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Orson Pratt

Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.

Orson Pratt

If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced....

Orison Swett Marden

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Orison Swett Marden

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Orison Swett Marden

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Novalis

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Epictetus

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Emily Bronte

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Hayley Williams

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

Hayley Williams

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

Henry Ford

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ward Beecher

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

John Krasinski

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

Johann Lamont

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Joaquin Miller

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Emma Stone

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

Emma Goldman

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

Emma Goldman

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

John Mellencamp

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

John Mellencamp

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

John Harvey Kellogg

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

John Harington

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

At this stage, the result is irreversible. ... We have to be honest about reality.

Tom Coughlin

That's a playoff percentage. To have 1-for-11 is unexplainable, to be honest with you.