Top 730 Honest Quotes

All women think men look good in suits. To be honest, I like the way they look, too.
Liam Hemsworth
We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
Max Baucus
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest – seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
Keith O’Brien
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford
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.
Leelee Sobieski
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.
Albert Camus
Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don’t work on me and I tune them out. It’s better to just be honest.
Kim Smith
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Hideki Tojo
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
Thiago Silva
I like my shame straight up and honest, and nobody does it better than In-N-Out Burger. You go to In-N-Out Burger, and they ask you the most shameful question in fast food. ‘I’ll have a burger, fries and a Coke.’ ‘Will you be eating in the car?’ ‘Yeah. I think so.’
Tom Segura
I’m not a materialistic person, to be honest. I’m all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don’t know what it means to lose anything.
Raftaar
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don’t ever discriminate.
Jesse White
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that’s what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
Derek Luke
I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you’re not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that’s a kind of serious moral issue.
Ricky Jay
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
Jean Reno
Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did ‘Honest,’ I liked it a lot, but I didn’t see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, ‘Man, this is big. This is big. It’s gonna be a single.’
Metro Boomin
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
John Phillips Marquand
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
George Hamilton
I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.
Julia Hartz
Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
Elia Kazan
Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all, and it’s all going to work out.
Katie Holmes
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not,

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.
Chuck Klosterman
People aren’t really honest with themselves about anything. That’s one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.
The-Dream
I am just forthcoming – completely blunt and honest.
Michelle Visage
The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what’s in your heart. He already knows the decisions you’ve made. He’s just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.
Victoria Osteen
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Kerry Stokes
I try to be as honest as I can and that’s the best way to do things.
Steve Smith
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That’s really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure
Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.
Andrew Gotianun
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
Bjork
I don’t think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don’t leave feeling too dark.
Mary Lambert
I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it.
Morgan Wallen
If you’re gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don’t do it.
R. Kelly
For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch
They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.
Mike Judge
I’ll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.
Alicia Garza
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
Anne Lamott
My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.
Scott Eastwood
You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.
Frank Abagnale
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst
Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
Billie Eilish
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
To be quite honest, I’ve been very blessed when I’ve worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks
I’m quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man’s real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
Robert Sheckley
I don’t think the majority of people – to be quite honest – care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.
Martin McGuinness
If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
Thomas Sowell
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
Malcolm Wilson
I don’t have a big appetite. I don’t eat a lot, to be honest – never. I’m a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I’m not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
Carine Roitfeld
I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.
Marco Silva
I’m an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.
Luke Combs
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I’m totally honest. You change. Things alter. It’s the exception rather than the rule and I think it’s exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It’s hard work.
Robert Powell
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving suc

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
Gore Vidal
Bond in ‘Goldeneye’ is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he’s another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?
Martin Campbell
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
Elmer Davis