Top 52 An Honest Person Quotes
#1. It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise ... -Bob Slocum
Joseph Heller
#2. I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
Yuvraj Singh
#3. Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.
Billy Graham
#4. In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
Mark Skousen
#5. Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
Edward Abbey
#6. History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
Barry Goldwater
#7. Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
Brian Celio
#9. I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
Vicente Fox
#11. A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.
Steven D. Levitt
#12. You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.
Kristen Stewart
#13. A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
Tony Blankley
#14. People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it's not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#15. I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Dan Rather
#16. One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
Albert Einstein
#17. I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
John Lasseter
#18. As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
Todd Burpo
#19. An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty
Azhar Sabri
#20. I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
Dolly Parton
#21. I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
Liam Hemsworth
#22. Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.
Maureen O'Hara
#23. As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.
Burning Spear
#24. Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the person in the room. It's like a blind date. I know in the first five minutes if it's gonna be weird.
Liz Rose
#25. The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
Charles Dickens
#26. Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.
Anuj
#27. You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. 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
#29. I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
Randy Harrison
#30. If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And
Chetan Bhagat
#31. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa
#32. Lauga had asked Margret whether she thought there would be an outward hint of the evil that drives a person to murder. Evidence oft he Devil: a herelip, a snaggletooth, a birthmark; some small outer defect. There must be a warning, some way of knowing, so that honest people could keep their guard.
Hannah Kent
#33. Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
Ira Sachs
#34. I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart)
Joseph Haydn
#35. I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
Caitlyn Jenner
#36. PRINCIPLE 1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.
Dale Carnegie
#37. Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
P. J. O'Rourke
#38. I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham
#39. An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz' ... it's an adventure.
Maynard Ferguson
#41. The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#42. A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy . However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
Richard P. Feynman
#43. To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.
Erika Christensen
#44. I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.
Molly Ringwald
#45. You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.
Konosuke Matsushita
#46. When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
John Sergeant Wise
#47. I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
Bill Shankly
#48. Being a healthy broke person was better than being an unhealthy broke person. Besides, he needed to think. And to be honest, most of what he did at the gym was more like thinking than exercising.
Marshall Thornton
#49. There is evidence for the deity of Jesus
good, strong,
historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest
person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
John R.W. Stott
#50. I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
Ricky Williams
#51. I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.
Simon Cowell
#52. I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.
Eva Green