Honest Quotes - Page 16

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.