Honest Quotes

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

I am looking for an honest man.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.