Honest Quotes - Page 11

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality. This year, may Eid also be a time in which we recognize the values of progress, pluralism, and acceptance that bind us together as a Nation and a global community. By working together to advance mutual understanding, we point the way to a brighter future for all.