Honest With Yourself Quotes

• The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

  Joe Strummer

  Tough, Honest, Being Honest

  "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.

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• You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

  Charlton Heston

  Inspirational, Perfect, Honest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  World Love, Hypocrisy, Inner Peace

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• You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Impact

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

  Vernon Howard

  Truth, Honesty, Doors

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• Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Love, Reality, Listening

  Susan Polis Schutz, Stephen Schutz (2007). “To My Daughter with Love: On the Important Things in Life”, p.22, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• 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.

  Rachel Roy

  Long, Honest, Designer

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

  Ang Lee

  Honesty, Issues, Being Honest

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• Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  Nelson Mandela

  Honesty, Integrity, Humility

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  Nelson Mandela

  Motivational, Confidence, Honesty

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• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Choices, Secret

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• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Willard Scott

  Positive, Family, Unique Characteristics

  Willard Scott (1983). “The Joy of Living”, Ballantine Books

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

  James Farley

  School, Men, Eight

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• If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

  Phife Dawg

  Honest, Hell, Ifs

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Trying, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 22, 2015

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• Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Honesty, Views, Tables

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• The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Keys, Weak Spots, Done

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Years, Long

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• It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

  Shania Twain

  Honest, Hard, Being Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Feelings, Important

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.96, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Life Is, Sincerity

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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