Honesty Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

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.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

Honesty is the best policy.

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 American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.