Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

I love insult, it's always honest.

Juliana Hatfield

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

Josh Billings

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

Josh Billings

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Josh Billings

Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Oscar Wilde

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Kathryn Stockett

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Julian Huxley

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Paul Tillich

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

Paul D. Boyer

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Patrick White

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Macklemore

I'm as honest as I can be.

Lynn Flewelling

It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Graydon Carter

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Gore Verbinski

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

John Ciardi

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

John Bright

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

John Bradshaw

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

M. Scott Peck

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

Matthew Arnold

The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

Matthew Hale

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

Mats Sundin

Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.

Tom Renney

I'm not really willing to put him in (tonight), to be honest with you. I'd like to see him (tomorrow) and see how he's making out.

Kevin Drew

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Karl Marx

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Judith Crist

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Gerald R. Ford

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Jim Croce

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .

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.