Top 730 Honest Quotes

I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you’re walking down the street.
Johnny Weir
There’s one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.
Andrew Gotianun
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
Mahathir Mohamad
In love, I’ve been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.
Luke James
He convinced me that if we’re going to have honest government that you can’t leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
Bill Scott
To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don’t get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.
Varg Vikernes
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.
David Gill
If we’re honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don’t believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, ‘Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?’
Joseph Prince
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
John Bright
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
Scott Dixon
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Wilhelm Reich
I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who’s willing to fail because those can’t be conceived. They never play if they’re thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.
Gore Verbinski
Qualities like being considerate, loyal, caring, protective and honest are what attract me in a man and I find such men desirable.
Shehnaaz Gill
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
To be honest, until I started dubbing, I didn’t realize the amount of work of a dubbing artiste puts in. Especially the artistes that dub for villains. They really stretch their vocal cords to a different dimension.
Chinmayi
I’m now in my late 30s, and I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I’ve decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
Gong Yoo
I can’t hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
Farooq Abdullah
To me, ‘beauty’ means to be natural, creative, honest – to say the truth.
Nawal El Saadawi
To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I’m quite the dork, I’d rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn’t get you a girl, does it?
Wentworth Miller
I love being around kids; they’re honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.
Jesse Bradford
Nothing comes close to the IPL, to be honest.
AB de Villiers
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that’s wrong. Don’t get into a relationship if you can’t be honest.
Randeep Hooda
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a doze

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson
I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don’t appease Brock Lesnar. I don’t placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I’m willing to back up with facts, with theory.
Paul Heyman
I’m almost able to be more honest by lying. By making everything up, I’m able to say what I really want to.
James Acaster
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
Michelle Shocked
I’ve always been outspoken. I’ve always been honest. I’ve always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.
Joe Budden
An honest money system is the only alternative.
Frederick Soddy
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
Lauryn Hill
To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
Carles Puigdemont
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.
Charles Leclerc
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.
Fei-Fei Li
We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.
Greg Boyle
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
I create my own backstory regardless of if I’m told something about the background or not. There’s always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
Regina King
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth – share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
Gerard Way
I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job.
Nestor Kirchner
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
They’re very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It’s not that the British are more honest – you’re just under no illusion with them.
Hugh Laurie
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are – and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
Kerry King
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that’s the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.
Robbie Kay
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
Rush Limbaugh
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
Tyson Fury
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
It’s a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
Mark Rylance
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. ‘American Sniper’ has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris’s life.
Taya Kyle
The literary story is a story that deals with the compl

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always – if ever – capable of articulating their condition.
Ron Carlson
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
Robert Teeter
I started singing before I started talking. And that’s the God’s honest truth. I think it was something that I’ve always loved to do, even if I wasn’t good at it. I just loved ballads.
Millie Bobby Brown
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they’re some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.
Rhys Darby
To be honest with my music… for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
Keri Hilson