Honest Quotes - Page 41

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you [Hillary Clinton].

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront

Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not