Honesty Quotations

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

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

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

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

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

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.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

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.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

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.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

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.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.

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

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

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

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

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.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.