Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Richard P. Feynman

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

Richard J. Needham

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

William Shenstone

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Richard L. Evans

Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

Tupac Shakur

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

Vera Brittain

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

Vance Havner

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

Robin Williams

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Robert E. Lee

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Roberta Flack

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Robert Rauschenberg

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Sasha Azevedo

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

Sarah McLachlan

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Samuel Johnson

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

Willa Ford

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Vladimir Lenin

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Wayne Dyer

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Virginia Woolf

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Samuel Smiles

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Samuel Richardson

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Rodney Crowell

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

Roger Moore

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Will Rogers

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

W. Eugene Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist—a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself…

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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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.

Jeff Burton

In all honesty, it's a matter of me not messing up. Today had nothing to do with me. The only impact I had on the day was to be a warm-blooded person who could turn the thing on and mash the gas.