Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Reuben Clark

Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

J. Reuben Clark

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

Gene Hackman

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Jerry Bridges

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Gertrude Stein

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Jeremy Foley

I do know that you've just got to be honest and open.

Howard Stern

I'm the voice of honesty.

Howard Stern

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

Howard Cosell

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Honore de Balzac

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Grover Cleveland

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

James Bryant Conant

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

Jack Whitehall

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

Jack White

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

James Frey

There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.

Isaac Asimov

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Isaac Asimov

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Elton John

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Honesty is a huge issue because even people who disagreed with his policies respected his integrity.

Jamal Lewis

Honestly right now, I'm on mute right now. I'm going to keep saying the same thing.

Honestly I think there is no master plan other than 'Let's put this tool out there and see what people do with it,'

Martin Short

He's wildly passionate and very, very honest and smart.

Paul Auster

Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

Pat Benatar

You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Leonardo DiCaprio

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

Patrick Rothfuss

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere