Honest Quotes - Page 39

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

At least I can say that I'm honest.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too.

Be dignified, honest and truthful.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.