Honest Quotes

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson

Marrying for love may be a bit risky,
but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono

We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that,
once it is competently programmed and working smoothly,
it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov

Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans.
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of
labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering cone from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most,
it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
- William Wordsworth

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
- Sydney Madwed

There are more honest people and more good people than
there are thieves and bad people.
It's just always been that way.
- Michael Nesmith

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
- Brian Molko

The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us,
to be honest with you.
Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into
the playoffs on a winning note.
- Michael Strahan

I don't regret anything I ever do or say.
I don't like to live my life being censored.
I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect
that because you're honest.
- Eva Longoria

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
- Julie Taymor

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs.
Ball.
She was honest with people.
If she liked you, you knew it.
If she didn't, you knew it, also.
- Keith Thibodeaux

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk,
to be honest.
- Hugh Dancy

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men,
I will find something in them which will hang him.
- Cardinal Richelieu

They don't make you pay for the humor.
It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as
many laughs as possible in 2 minutes.
They are the most honest comedians ever.
- Mike Judge

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry,
I gotta be honest.
- Jeri Ryan

I am a very conscientious golfer.
I count every stroke.
I learned to play that way.
That is the only way I can play.
It taught me to be honest.
There is no greater virtue than honesty.
- Martin Sheen

The makers of entertainment must try,
in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
- Elia Kazan

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time,
remembering to love, to honor, to respect.
It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
- Jasmine Guy

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human
spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it.
If it is honest, it is beautiful.
If it is not honest, it is obvious.
- Corin Nemec

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell.
In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest
in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
- Christopher Darden

Seek not the favor of the multitude;
it is seldom got by honest and lawful means.
But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices,
but weigh them.
- Immanuel Kant

In art, the only one who really knows whether what
you've done is honest is the artist.
- Bruce Nauman

Musicians can run this state better than politicians.
We won't get a lot done in the mornings,
but we'll work late and be honest.
- Kinky Friedman

Just be honest with yourself.
That opens the door.
- Vernon Howard

There's one way to find out if a man is honest -
ask him.
If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
- Groucho Marx

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person;
you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
- Brian Celio

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.
- Albert Camus

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
- Fernando Flores

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest,
it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
- Jon Secada

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number
of people who bought the books,
but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond.
Never in a million years.
- Robbie Coltrane

Most style is not honest enough.
- F. L. Lucas

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain,
and I don't like it!
Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade.
It makes you so honest.
It's cleansing.
- Lionel Richie

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
- William H. O'Connell

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
- Brigham Young

Music has always gotten me through life,
particularly honest, real music.
- Lisa Marie Presley

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
- Leonard Baskin

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
- Robert Burns

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
believe me, than in half the creeds.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals.
Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
- Dick Van Patten

There are very honest people who do not think that
they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
- Anatole France

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
- Earl Wilson

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer,
so I became a writer.
- Leon Uris

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.
- Lee Ryan

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
- Bill Toomey

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them;
there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
- Jean de la Bruyere

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
- Nikki Cox

The first job of a writer is to be honest.
- Irvine Welsh

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.
- Robert Wagner

An honest God is the noblest work of man.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest.
They have to keep themselves accurate.
- John Metcalf

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer.
I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years.
So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
- Gary Oldman

I'm being honest, I say what I think.
- Boy George

Baddies always do get the best lines,
that's the honest truth.
- James D'arcy

Adversity is the trial of principle.
Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- Henry Fielding

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial;
but if honest,
and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead
to full establishment of the truth.
- Ambrose Bierce

I have a hard time with morals.
All I know is what feels right, what's more important
to me is being honest about who you are.
Morals I get a little hung up on.
- Brad Pitt

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