Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

William Plomer

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Ralph Inge

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Walter Russell

Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Rick Warren

If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

Tori Spelling

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

Veronica Roth

Honesty leads to peace.

Veronica Roth

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

Vince Gilligan

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Vince Vaughn

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Samuel Johnson

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Sachin Tendulkar

Hansie Cronje. Honestly. I got out to Hansie more than anyone.I never knew what to do with him

Ronald Reagan

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Robert Jordan

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

William Hazlitt

An honest man is respected by all parties.

William Hazlitt

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

William Hazlitt

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

Wendell Willkie

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Yoko Ono

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

William Osler

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

William P. Young

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Zig Ziglar

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.