Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph Addison

Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.

Joseph Addison

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Joseph Addison

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Jose Marti

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Joni Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

Kevin Spacey

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Kelley Armstrong

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Jimmy Carter

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Jimmy Carter

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

James Patterson

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

James Marsters

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Novalis

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Epictetus

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Emily Bronte

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Ellen Page

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Hayley Williams

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Kurt Andersen

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Khaled Hosseini

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Kerry Stokes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

Napoleon Hill

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.