Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Adolf Hitler

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

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

Abraham Lincoln

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Ani Difranco

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Ani Difranco

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

Ally Carter

You cannot con an honest man.

Alison Krauss

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Ann Brashares

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Albert Pike

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

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!

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Austen

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Jamie Oliver

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

Janis Joplin

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Miley Cyrus

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Chuck Grassley

More of his unreserved honesty is needed inside the beltway,

I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case.

Ben E. King

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

Ben Folds

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Miley Cyrus

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Bryant H. McGill

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.

Cesar Chavez

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.