Top 1200 Honest Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

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

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

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

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

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

I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

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

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I think that being on a reality show is difficult. We're expected to be honest, and especially since we are honest, it creates issues sometimes in relationships.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

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

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

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

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

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

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

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

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

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

My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

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

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

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

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.

You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a persona for the artwork with their honesty. That's really good.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

I don't think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I'm honest and I say that with no ego, that's the honest truth. I know what I do and I'm self aware.

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

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

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

For me, it's about honest interactions with people, always being honest with myself. That's my biggest power.

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

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

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

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

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

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.