Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Rodney Crowell

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Atkins

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

Roddy Doyle

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Roberto Bolano

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Willa Ford

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Vladimir Lenin

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Wayne Dyer

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Virginia Woolf

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Virginia Woolf

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Wernher von Braun

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

Wale

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.

Samuel Smiles

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Samuel Richardson

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

William Congreve

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

William Cowper

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Vladimir Putin

I think that the 21st-century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual aspect in the global economic development has grown immensely. That's why we plan to concentrate on creating additional opportunities for our people to realise their potential.

Vladimir Putin

Let us be frank: provoking military-political instability and other regional conflicts is also a convenient way of deflecting people's attention from mounting social and economic problems. Regrettably, further attempts of this kind cannot be ruled out.

William Greider

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

Waylon Jennings

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

Stephen Chbosky

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

Thomas Kretschmann

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Thomas Jefferson

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

Thomas Jefferson

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Vijay Mallya

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Vidya Balan

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

Victor Hugo

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Sam Harris

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.