Honest Quotes

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

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

I'm a really honest person.

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.