Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Altucher

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

James Altucher

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Allen

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

Friedrich Schiller

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

Lucan

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

John Ciardi

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

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.

Sophocles

No honest man will argue on every side

Sophocles

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Ellen Page

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

Scott Adams

Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes... no, wait...

Ray Davies

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

Randy Harrison

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Thomas Jefferson

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

Thomas Jefferson

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Thomas Jefferson

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Thomas Jefferson

The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

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.

Stephen King

...practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable...

Stephen King

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Star Jones

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.