Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Rihanna

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

Tim O'Brien

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tiger Woods

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Tom Stoppard

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

Tom Perrotta

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Tom Brady

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.

TobyMac

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Sam Houston

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Tammy Bruce

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Tad Williams

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

T Bone Burnett

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

Sylvia Plath

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Roscoe Bartlett

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

Tom Ford

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

Stephen Covey

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Stephen Covey

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

Stephen Covey

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Thomas Carlyle

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Spider Robinson

honesty is hard work.

Shirley Manson

I feel privileged, to be honest.

Scott Watson

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Steven Yeun

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

Robert Burns

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

Robert Burns

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Ridley Scott

I don't ever blink, honestly.

Richard Steele

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.