Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sallust

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Russell Means

I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.

Russell Simmons

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Ronald Reagan

There are no degrees of honesty.

Ron Paul

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

Rory McIlroy

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Sheryl Crow

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Shia LaBeouf

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Sharon Kay Penman

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

Shannen Doherty

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.

Taylor Swift

In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Talib Kweli

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Sinead O'Connor

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Simone Elkeles

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Thomas Carlyle

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Spider Robinson

honesty is hard work.

Scott Watson

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Thucydides

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

Rihanna

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

Tim O'Brien

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tiger Woods

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

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

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Victor Hugo

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Vernon Howard

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Veronica Roth

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Veronica Roth

Thank you for your honesty.

Thomas Otway

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.