Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.

Callie Thorne

And so much honesty. People go to school for years and years to get that kind of honesty.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Philip Sidney

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Marianne Moore

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...

Marianne Moore

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Meat Loaf

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

Max Lucado

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

May Sarton

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Caitlin Moran

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of uncertainty, to be honest with you, about how to proceed.

Howard Dean

A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives,

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Jim Brickman

The whole idea of my music now is honesty and really being who I am. It's not really something I decide, and it's not something that you learn.

I told them that night that I was an honest man.

They didn't really threaten a whole lot, to be honest with you. We just pitched well.

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.

Stockard Channing

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Sting

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

Sting

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Mother Teresa

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Mother Teresa

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Minka Kelly

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.