Browsing Topic Best Honest Quotes

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

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

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let’s be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn’t go home through an alley.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It’s more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb – it’s you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization… Search within… for honest self-expression.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you – not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be – but really like you for you. And when you’re creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.

The whole underlying theme for the new music… is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Be as honest with yourself as you possibly can. And it’s not going to work for everybody, and I know you’re going to be afraid of that, but please don’t worry about being accepted by everybody. The people who like you and want to be around you, that’s what matters, and that’s what’s healthiest for yourself.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. – Molière, The Misanthrope

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.