Honest Quotes - Page 47

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.

I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed