Top 101 Being Honest Quotes

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don’t necessarily think is the case, it’s a valuable asset. Not that I’m, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

I couldn’t see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn’t like school if I’m being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

Writing my first book, ‘Beautiful,’ was the time that I was able to write the truth of it – that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn’t cope. Writing became about being honest.

And if I’m being honest, I don’t think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

I think leadership is about being honest. It’s about being transparent. I think it’s about putting yourself in the shoes of others.

I’m not really gay, and I can’t sit here and say that I am, because that’s not real and that’s not genuine. But I also can’t sit here and say that I’m straight. This is something I’ve come to the conclusion through therapy and from being honest with myself. I am bisexual.

Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you’re trying to make them happy; you’re trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don’t want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

When I was on ‘Hurt Bert’ on FX – and I’m not crapping on FX, I’m just being honest – there was a point when I realized that they didn’t care if I died. If I died, they’d say ‘Of course it’s a legal thing, but think of the numbers.’

Most of my songs are inspired by both falling in love and heartache. And it was a turning point for me as a singer and songwriter as it dawned on me that I wasn’t being honest enough about what I truly feel.

Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.

If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one’s work is all that matters.

Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

Being honest, when I was playing for Tooting & Mitcham, I was buzzing, thinking: ‘I’m semi-pro.’ Then when I made my debut in League One, I was buzzing again, thinking ‘I’m pro.’ Then it was the Championship, then the Premier League, and then called up for England. And each time it happened, it was a surprise to me.

We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in ‘Brothers.’ We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.

All I really care about is that I’m being honest and I’m real and I’m coming from a real place. There’s a part of me that’s a total cad and a part of me that’s also a family man.

I think there’s a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There’s still a lot of subjects that I think people aren’t entirely comfortable being honest about.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I don’t want costumes and makeup between me and the audience – I want more direct communication. There’s something for me about being honest on stage, and I’m at my most honest when I’m behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

I agree that I am different from others. I am not trying to fit in someone else’s shoes. I am being honest to myself.

There’s nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

For me, it was never about the money. It was about the truth, about being honest.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It’s just finding what you’re good at and being honest with yourself.

What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.

‘The Iliad’ is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you’re being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you’re not a policy maker.

If I’m being honest, I think I’d be good at television; I just don’t know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don’t know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she’s not, I eat meat. I’m just being honest.

For me, it’s about honest interactions with people, always being honest with myself. That’s my biggest power.

In many ways, being honest about ‘Huckleberry Finn’ goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I’m finishing, even if it’s turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don’t admit it, they’re not being honest.

You can’t be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That’s the beginning of the demise in a relationship – not being honest and not being you.

It’s a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can’t always tell when they’re being honest and when they’re pretending – that is, when they’re acting. The really good ones don’t always seem to know themselves.

I’m being honest, I say what I think.

I’ve been very lucky, from the beginning. I’ve found that as long as you’re fundamentally good – as long as you’re not being bad to people – people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that’s what people want to see.

Life ain’t a drama. And life isn’t just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it’s truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.

I don’t watch any sports; I’m just being honest.

I was being honest – I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Hopefully at some point, someone else behind me will have an easier time with training methods, with being honest, with being true to who they are or whatever, because I broke down some sort of barrier.

People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that’s how we really are.

I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I’m being honest. That’s the reality.

If I’m being honest, yes, I’ve always been into the underdog instead of the golden boy or guy with the easy life. It doesn’t seem that dramatic from a storied perspective to play someone that has it easy or is incredibly normal.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there’s always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It’s impossible not to have that.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There’s no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I’m just being honest. I’ve asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it’s always just a pain in the bum and I just don’t bother any more.

A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a ‘do I or don’t I?’; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.

Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don’t see any point in being together if you’re not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise?