Honest Quotes

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
Jesse Ventura

Mind, Speak, Continue

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
Sigourney Weaver

Life, Trust, Hurt

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Best, Friend, Find

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
Frank Sinatra

Said, Else, Whatever

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

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Quite, Politician

Be prepared and be honest.
John Wooden

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

Life, Nation, While

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Hugh Prather

Stupid, Humble, Honesty

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

Country, Two, Percent

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Friend, Book

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers

Love, Marriage, Good

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

Truth, Doubt, May

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher

School, Nothing, Christian

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

Best, Saying, Real

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Best, Failure

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Poor, Remain, Surest

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Change, Humility

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

Luck, Running, Politician

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle

Yourself, May, Sure

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Time, Poetry

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

Cannot, Both, Communist

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
Prince William

Life, Caring, Thoughtful

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

Working, Once, Computer

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Henry Rollins

Life, Great, Mistakes

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Hillary Clinton

Marriage, Yourself, Ask

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
Lauryn Hill

Maintain, Brutally

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

Means, Few, Number

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

Love, God, Smile

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May, Confuse, Dissent

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