Top 1200 Being Honest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

In my experience, durable progress must be fashioned out of more than obscured truth, slogans, and empty promises. You do it through hard work. By going everywhere. Listening to everyone. Being honest with people. Being ambitious without indulging in magical thinking.

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk about it a lot. Do you really need to be that honest? You know what I mean? But he's a good man. He's a good family man. He's got good values, and we're delighted to have him as our honoree.

Look, there might not be a whole lot of people that really can relate to being a fighter pilot. Let's just be honest. But there's a ton of people that can relate to being a mom, because I am doing it right along with them.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

I don't watch any sports; I'm just being honest.

If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

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

To be honest, I feel like just an average human being.

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

One of the values of a human being is to be honest and admit at times knowing when to apologize.

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.