Honesty Quotes

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

I'm the voice of honesty.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

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

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.