Honest Quotes - Page 45

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

I don't ever blink, honestly.