Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Arthur Helps

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

Armistead Maupin

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Antonio Banderas

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Austin Peck

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

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.

Benjamin Graham

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Bruce Springsteen

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Bruce Springsteen

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Bruce Springsteen

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint...

Brian Tracy

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Brian Blessed

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Jane Fonda

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

Juvenal

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Juvenal

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Edgar Cayce

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Elizabeth Meriwether

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

William Shakespeare

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

William Shakespeare

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

William Shakespeare

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

William Shakespeare

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

Alan K. Simpson

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Charlie Cox

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

Charles de Lint

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akhil Sharma

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