Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rodriguez

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

Richard Rohr

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Richard L. Evans

Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

Tupac Shakur

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.

Sarah Dessen

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.

Roger Moore

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Rod Stewart

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

Roberta Flack

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Robert Torricelli

Let's deal with each other honestly.

Robert Scheer

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

Robert Rauschenberg

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Sasha Azevedo

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

Sarah McLachlan

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Samuel Johnson

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

Willa Ford

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Walter Lippmann

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

William Plomer

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Ralph Inge

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Walter Russell

Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Willie Aames

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

William S. Burroughs

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist. honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.

William J. H. Boetcker

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

William Jennings Bryan

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

Will Rogers

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

Will Rogers

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Will Rogers

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

W. Eugene Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist—a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself…

W. E. B. Du Bois

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.