Honest Quotes - Page 15

• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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• The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

  Ximenes Doudan

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

  Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Tough Questions

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• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Mistake

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• It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

  Galen Strawson

  Atheist, Believe, Taken

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• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Procrastination, Cutting

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.101

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• They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Recovery, Justice

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• In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

  Carter Heyward

  Love, God, Respect

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• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Justice, Diversity, Pay

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

  Frances Perkins

  Eye, Men, Ethical Principles

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Mind, Clients

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

  George Berkeley

  Truth, Lying, Men

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

  Dan Rather

  Honesty, Lying, Thinking

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• Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fake People, Thinking, World

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• To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  People, Individuality, Doe

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
  Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
  Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Fall, Angel

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.499

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• I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Thinking, Religion

  "What I Believe". "The Forum", 84, (p. 139), September 1930.

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• I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Mind, Want

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Able, Mask

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

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