Honest
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.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Famous, Honest
My father always taught me to be honest and work hard. Those values have shaped my career and my life.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Famous, Hardwork, Honest
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Author: Kapil DevTopics: Famous, Honest, Life
I want my music to be honest and authentic, and not just follow trends.
Author: AdeleTopics: Famous, Honest, People
Honestly, one doesn’t expect any awards, let alone a National Award.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: Honest
Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Extraordinary, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Meaningful, Ordinary
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It’s all we’ve got.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Dignity, Enjoy, Friends, Honest
Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Desire, Famous, God, Honest, Praise, Sincere
Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all. Be thorough, be real, be honest, be sound, be whole-hearted. If you have any religion at all, let your religion be real. See that you do not sin the sin of Lot’s wife.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christ, Famous, Follow, Honest, Meaningful, Real, Religion
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christianity, Famous, God, Honest, Real
I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he’s still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Admire, Creative, Famous, Genius, Honest, Moving, Successful
I feel like you have to be honest with yourself, and if a project is right for you, then you have to go for it.
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Experiences, Famous, Honest, Honestly, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Projects, Right
Let’s be honest, ‘Ginza’ doesn’t really have lyrics to speak of. It’s a party track – a party for Reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Honest, Lyrics, Music, Party track, Reggaeton
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn’t know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, ‘Just call my name to see where I am,’ because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Author: Gail DeversTopics: Famous, Honest, Race, Ran, Scoreboard
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
Author: Thiago SilvaTopics: Famous, Honest, Humble, Life, Meaningful, Mother, Place, Situations
You have to be kind. You have to be open. You have to be honest.
Author: Tom CruiseTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Kind, Life, Meaningful, Open
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Hypocrites, Life, Meaningful, Multitude, Panics
In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Business, England, Famous, God, Honest, Impoverish, King, Nation, Places, Plain, Pretty, Ruffians, Sterling, Worth
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Country, Earth, Famous, Fight, Free, Honest, Life, Live, Meaningful, Positive, Room
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, God, Honest, Lived, Meaningful, Ruffians, Society, Worth
He who dares not offend cannot be honest
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Dare, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Life, Meaningful, Offend
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Fact, Famous, Honest, People, Philanthropy, Uncomfortable, Unhappy
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Century, Famous, Great, Honest, Nation, People, Produce
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Honest, Politician, Unthinkable
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Famous, Honest, Read, Something, World
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Topics: Deal, Dealing, Energy, Engages, Honest, Human Nature, Human Right, Human sensation, Human soul
I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side. I auditioned for a lot of work and got some good feedback, and then was told I wasn’t the choice.
Author: Gabrielle AnwarTopics: Choice, Difficult, Famous, Feedback, Honest, Inspirational, Reputation, Thorns, Work
I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.
Author: Gabriella WilsonTopics: Alone, Famous, Honest, Human Emotions, Understand, Vulnerable, Want, Women
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Always, Busy, Doing, Ends, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Intelligence, Life, Meaningful, Object, Perspiration, Planning, Production, Purpose, Real, Seeming, System, Work
Kids, man, they’re way too honest. They’re like mini-alcoholics.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Famous, Honest, Honesty, Kids, Man
The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Honest, Inspirational, Old age, Secret, Solitude
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTopics: Honest, Names, Serving
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Author: Rodney DangerfieldTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Luck, Politician, Running
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Author: Rodney DangerfieldTopics: Famous, Honest, Luck, Politician, Respect, Running
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Author: Robert Louis StevensonTopics: Famous, Friend, Honest, World
I had a few mistakes, but I’m moving on. To be honest, it just motivates me even more.
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: Encouragement, Famous, Honest, Inspirational, Motivates, Moving on, Past mistakes
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
Author: Robert FrostTopics: Commercials, Famous, Honest, Quite
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Character, Consider, Famous, Honest, Succeed, Success
The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: conviction, Famous, Honest, Policy
To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.
Author: HyunaTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful
The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Author: Hunter S. ThompsonTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Over, People
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Duty, Fall, Famous, Fear, Heaven, Honest, Inspirational, Meaningful, Men, Needle, Right, Soul, True, World
I work hard, like I’m sure everyone else does, and I’m very honest with the work I do.
Author: Shah Rukh KhanTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful
I believe in calm, simple, low-profile life. You live simple, you train hard, and live an honest life. Then you are free.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Calm, Famous, Free, Hard, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivational, Simple, Train
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone’s going to catch you.
Author: Rita MorenoTopics: Honest, Idea
He who criticizes, be he ever so honest, must suggest a practical remedy or he soon descends from the height of a critic to the level of a common scold.
Author: Elbert HubbardTopics: Critical thinking, Criticism, Height, Honest, Honestly, Level, Level of jealousy, Practical, Scolding, Suffer, Suffering, Sufficiently, Suggestion, Suggestiveness
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.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Decision, Evil, Famous, Honest, Honest man, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Possible, promptitude, Safety, steadiness
I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men
Author: Hal LindseyTopics: Famous, Honest, Important, Life, Meaningful
An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Honest, Ordinary, Terrible
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Certain, Honest, Usually
The most honest answer is that I don’t know. It’s a matter of the heart. That’s how I feel.
Author: Haim SabanTopics: Famous, Heart, Honest, Meaningful, Positive
A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it’s considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Famous, Honest, Person, Philosophy, Special, Understand, Understood
Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.
Author: Bad BunnyTopics: Always, Honest, Lesson, Readings, Real
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Careful, Conventional, Famous, Fool, Fooled, Honest, Person, Principles, Scientists, Yourself
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can’t happen.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Honest, Life, Things
Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.
Author: Gordon B. HinckleyTopics: Faith, Famous, Honest, Inspirational, Marriage, Religious
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Famous, Honest, Humorous way, Man
The only problems I’ve ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
Author: PinkTopics: Famous, Feel, Feeling, Honest, People, Problems
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonTopics: Famous, Honest, Kind, Meaningful, Silly
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Esteem, Famous, Honest, Meaningful
Think what we would have missed if we had never… used a mobile phone or surfed the Net or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Mobile, Never
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Cheat, Famous, Honest, Life, Meaningful
The key is, to be honest. Be honest, but don’t play yourself.
Author: DJ KhaledTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful
I surf; I skateboard. I’m from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Actors, Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Thoughts
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.
Author: Douglas AdamsTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Problem, Question
Be honest, truthful, and altruistic. If you concern yourself with taking care of others, there’ll be no room for lies, bullying, and cheating. If you’re truthful you can live transparently, which will enable you to establish trust, the basis for making friends.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Trust
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.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Famous, Forgive, Honest, Kind, Meaningful
No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Honest, Honestly, Manipulation, Mankind, Manner Of Life, Moral character, Motivational, Motives, Verbal articulation
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Famous, Honest, Poor, Remain, Surest
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
Author: Carl JungTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Judgement, Judgmental, Lack of Understanding, Life, Pretend, Pretending, Truth, Workings, World
The women that inspire me, to be honest, are the women that struggle.
Author: Cardi BTopics: Honest, Inspirational, Role of Women, Structure, Struggle, Women
He brought us clear down to the ground, nearly. He’s an honest soul, and means the very best in the world, but I’m afraid, I’m afraid he’s too flighty.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Famous, Ground, Honest, Meaningful, World
I am happy, because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Happy, Honest, Lies, Limitation
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Divine guidance, Famous, Fate, God, Honest, Inspirational, Outcomes, Raising, Wise
To live outside the law you must be honest.
Author: Bob DylanTopics: Famous, Honest, Law, Life, Little Things, Live, Lived
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Self-Confidence
If I’m honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all.
Author: Audrey HepburnTopics: Honest, Read
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness
Author: Audre LordeTopics: Honest, Learn, Learning, Listen
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Famous, Hardworking, Honest, Learned, Life, Mental, Positive, Secrets, Self Respect
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Famous, Good, Honest, Meaningful, Progress
If I’m completely honest, I don’t remember those months of my life because I was…so sad. I don’t really remember how it started or how it finished, or how all of a sudden there were 10 songs on the board
Author: Ariana GrandeTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Life, Meaningful, Remember
Everybody’s got something to say, but I’d rather be the person who’s honest than the person who’s like, ‘Oh that’s personal, I’m not going to tell you.’ I’ve always had an open, honest relationship with my fans.
Author: Ariana GrandeTopics: Everybody, Famous, Honest, Life, Meaningful, Personal, Something
The method of “postulating” what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Author: Bertrand RussellTopics: Advantages, Honest, Method, Methods
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Author: Benjamin FranklinTopics: Fools, Honest, Practice, Tricks
I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Fulfillment, Great, Honest, Life, Love, Meaningful
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
Author: Max VerstappenTopics: Compare, Famous, Honest, Meaningful, Rookies
To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, ‘Give me the ball.’ We’re either going to go to overtime or I’m going to win it for us. It was that simple.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Famous, Honest, Inspirational, Positive, Simple, Winning
Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration
Author: Andrew CarnegieTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Meaningful
I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Famous, Friends, Honest, Inspirational, Mother, Special
I’m Really moved by all the people on the internet demanding that I should win an Oscar. but to be honest, I only do this job because i love it, not to win prizes.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Demanding, Famous, Honest, Inspirational, Internet, Motivation, Oscar, Overwhelming, Win
Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Famous, Honest, Honesty, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, Realistic
To be honest, I’m not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Honest, Self-Doubt
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Give, God, Home, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Power, Powerful Message
In a crisis, give help first and then advice
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Advice, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Help, Hidden, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Positive
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
Author: AeschylusTopics: Experiences, Failure, Faithfulness, Famous, Fear, Feelings, Hold, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Dishonest, Experiences, Famous, Honest, Honesty, Intelligence, Intelligent, Meaningful, Spirit, Spiritual, Street Violence, Violence
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
Author: Albert CamusTopics: Famous, Feelings, Friends, Honest, Life, Opinion, Really, Reason, Trust
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTopics: Clear-Minded, Famous, Honest, Hopeful, Possibility, Prime Minister
There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering
Author: Alan WattsTopics: Famous, Feelings, Honest, Life, Struggle, Succeed Greatly, Suffer
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Famous, Force, Honest, Inspirational
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Author: Abu BakrTopics: Famous, Honest, Honesty, Life
The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Domestic Support, Honest, Honesty, Recreational
It is necessary to be honest and truthful in life because eventually, the truth will come to light, and people will see through the deception.
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Ability, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Human Right, Identity, Life
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Count, Fair, Honest, Honesty, Integrity, Trust, Truth
I don’t want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Desire, Express, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Money, Wealth
To be honest, I never realized it. I never really thought that I was going to be really good or not. I just wanted to make my dream come true
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Desire, Determined, Dream, Effort, Famous, Honest, Motivation, Positivity, Realization
Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn’t have a fear that I wouldn’t be good enough in England.
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Confidence, Experiences, Famous, Fear, Feelings, Football, Hard Work, Honest, Improvements, Inspirational, Mindset, Opinion, Passionate, Self Belief, Self-Acceptance, Success
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
Author: W. Edwards DemingTopics: Environment, Failure, Famous, Honest, Impact, Negative, Philosophy, Trust