Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

David Blunkett

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

David Bowie

Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

Dave Thomas

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

David A. Bednar

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

David A. Bednar

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

David A. Bednar

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

David Wenham

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

David Whyte

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

David O. McKay

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Daryl Gates

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Colin Hanks

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

Colin Firth

The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing.

Dan Rather

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Dan Fogelberg

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

Dan Fogelberg

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

Truth might be unattainable, but honesty is not.

Freddy Adu

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

Abhishek Bachchan

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

The radio stations have licensed the use of the airwaves, so there's an obligation for them to be honest brokers.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

Hannah Tointon

I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

Tom Daschle

I would like to think they are honest differences of opinion, ... That's my story right now, and I'm sticking to it.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

We are trying to be honest with consumers.

Tilda Swinton

Well, it's kind of what I do, to be honest with you,

We didn't even go. We honestly thought that $4 million was pushing it, so there wasn't any missed opportunity.

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest