Being Too Honest Quotes

#1. Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

Hilary Duff

#2. I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Iris Chang

#3. We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.

Wangari Maathai

#4. I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

#5. I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.

Penelope Mortimer

#6. My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Ryan Seacrest

#7. It was astounding how much more comfortable I felt just being honest. So I kept going.

Patrick Lencioni

#8. She laughs an honest laugh ... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.

C. JoyBell C.

#9. The new car's a lot prettier than Lucy, my Sweet Caroline - she's a newer sedan, and, if I'm being perfectly honest, is actually a little bit of a risk. She's flashier than what I'd usually pick. I just couldn't resist her gorgeous shade of ruby red.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. I'm just going to be really honest right now because this is all new to me and I don't know how else to handle it." He takes a deep breath and pushes the air off his forehead. "I like being around you. I like talking to you. When I'm not with you, I'm thinking about you.

Cheryl McIntyre

#11. I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying.

Natsuo Kirino

#12. Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

Eddie Marsan

#13. 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

#14. Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Syesha Mercado

#15. One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.

Jane Taylor

#16. Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

Morris Dees

#17. I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

James Altucher

#18. I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that I'm not happy with - well, it's almost as if being a poet is not enough for me. It's too late for me to do more now. I did what I could in a small way. I did it as theater, too, to be honest.

Gerald Stern

#19. That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

Sheri Fink

#20. If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that's too much reality for me to admit.

S.L. Scott

#21. Don't try to be hip or cool. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.

Austin Kleon

#22. I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

Ice Cube

#23. Marriages don't end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not "being seen or accepted" has ensued for too long.

Elaina Marie

#24. I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

Kelly Slater

#25. (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people.

Toni Cade Bambara

#26. Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#27. Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word
death? Dying? Dead?
Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?
Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.
I thought I would live forever too.

Lauren Oliver

#28. All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.

K.W. Jeter

#29. I've often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Ray Bradbury

#30. We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

May Sarton

#31. I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.

Lee Ryan

#32. To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

Peter Gizzi

#33. Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

Beccy Cole

#34. So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

Talib Kweli

#35. And like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

John Fowles

#36. The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

Adyashanti

#37. It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.

Anna Breslaw

#38. Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

Thomas Wolsey

#39. I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

Michael Angelakos

#40. You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

John Wayne

#41. What is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?

G.K. Chesterton

#42. I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

Laura Lippman

#43. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones

#44. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Charles Caleb Colton

#45. I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.

Amanda Bingson

#46. I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Noel Wells

#47. Truly, all that was missing was Mission Impossible theme music, and if I was being honest, it was playing in my head anyway.

Shelly Crane

#48. Who is the more courageous? The big, tough gay-basher, or the LGBTI person who faces their threats on a daily basis and carries on being honest about who they are regardless?

Christina Engela

#49. Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

Danielle LaPorte

#50. I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him.

Stephen Chbosky

#51. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

Anthony Liccione

#52. 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

#53. That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Jonathan Jackson

#54. 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

#55. I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Logan Lerman

#56. When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

Natalie Cole

#57. I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.

Laura Mullen

#58. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Rufus Sewell

#59. Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

Gene Simmons

#60. To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God

David Archuleta