Honest Quotes - Page 18

• People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sarcastic, Believe, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.

  Russell Cornell Leffingwell

  Children, Honesty, Freedom

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• If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Honesty, Heart, Knowing God

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• I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.

  Sybille Bedford

  Honesty, Generous Spirit, Oil

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• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• I like you a lot and because I like you, I keep following you. To be honest, I can't hear either. No, I can hear, but I only wanted to hear what I want. That you liked me, that you wanted to be with me.

  Kim Dong-joo

  I Like You, Drama, Want

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• God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

  Nick Offerman

  Life Changing, Use, Stage

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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Organization, People

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• She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Honesty, Husband, Eye

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• When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Kindness, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

  Arthur Baer

  Honesty, Heart, Player

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• The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

  Albert E. Bowen

  Honesty, Lying, Law

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• Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

  William Grant Bangerter

  Witty, Honesty, Character

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• Honest people have no ethics

  Sam DeCavalcante

  People, Ethics, Mobster

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• Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Friendship, Integrity, Men

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1865). “Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1”, p.464

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Pirate

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• Okay I'll be honest girl I can't lie I miss you.

  Drake

  Girl, Lying, Missing

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• Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Weakness

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• Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

  James Alexander Thom

  Ignorance, Fighting, Self

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• Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Joining, Slides, Realizing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational Life, Men, Honor

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• To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

  Anne Bronte

  Sex, Flower, Light

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.244, Harper Collins

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• She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

  Um Ki-joon

  Drama, Kids, Here And There

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