Top 730 Honest Quotes

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

When we get to a point when trans folks are included in the creative process, the narrative will be much more authentic. Trans actors playing trans roles is a key part of that. But some of the trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, let’s be honest.

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

I like working with an actor who doesn’t do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

If there are violent lawbreakers who want to rob the livelihoods of honest hard-working Canadians in the energy sector, then those lawbreakers should be treated like lawbreakers.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

They’re all fake belts. To be honest, I think real belt is Tony Ferguson’s.

Wearing jeans or any kind of long pants, it just sucks for me, to be honest.

When you’re 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you’re 21 and you’ve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren’t really good. OK, let’s be honest. A lot of them were crap.

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 liked Benitez’s sincerity. I identified with him because he is a very direct and honest person.

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn’t been made.

Drake revived ‘Top Boy,’ if I’m honest with you. You’ve got to give him a lot of credit.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I could do nice, but it’s just not as much fun. Being nice isn’t my biggest goal in life. I’m trying to be honest about who I am, and that’s not always nice. I’m not always the world’s cheerleader.

You just need to be honest with how you’re feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, ‘Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They’re gonna call me incompetent. I’m going to lose my job. I’ve got to be tough, it’s a man’s world.’

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you’re an honest person, you’ll make mistakes, but that’s when the most interesting things happen.

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

Sam Walton’s values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

I drank more wine when I wasn’t working as much, to be honest.

I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn’t want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I’m always honest, whether I’m in the limelight or not.

I do serve on various boards and I’m very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

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

I’ve got to take a break, to be honest. I’m not even going to lie.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.

The second you’re not honest with yourself, you’ve lost everything.

I have a good sense of humor. I’m confident, passionate and honest. I’m a people person.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

I mean, that’s another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they’re honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I’ve heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

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

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.

I’m not a wilting flower. I’m honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I’ve burned a lot of bridges.

I’m not really a book person, to be honest.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I can’t envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

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.

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

It’s been up and down in my Arsenal career, to be honest.

I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work – some kind of honest labor.

I’m a bad interview because I want to always feel like I’m being totally honest, but at the same time, I’m absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

To be honest, I’m not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.

To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.

I don’t aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I’d rather focus on honesty than popularity.

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.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it’s just opinion. Don’t let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.