Famous Quotes & Sayings

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Alexander Siddig

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

A. R. Rahman

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

Agatha Christie

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Abraham Maslow

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Cornel West

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Cormac McCarthy

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Colum McCann

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

E. V. Lucas

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

E. W. Howe

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Paul Simon

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

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 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

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.

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.