Honest Quotes - Page 35

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.

Frankness invites frankness.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.