Candidly Quotes

#1. I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Matt Shea

#2. How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

Elizabeth Olsen

#4. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#5. The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

William James

#6. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Bill Bradley

#7. I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

B.C. Forbes

#8. As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

Nick Moran

#9. Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

Bernard DeVoto

#11. Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

Ole Hallesby

#12. If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Horace

#13. Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Was he a good father?"
To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."
Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

Deana Martin

#15. Sell candidly.
Sell courageously.
Sell calculatingly.
Sell contentiously.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.

Gerald Durrell

#17. This is my journal. I can be candid here. Candidly, I could not be more miserable.

Thomas M. Disch

#18. You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.

Adoniram Judson

#19. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.

Johnny Depp

#20. If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

Bill Jensen

#21. Lucas Delos," he said, holding out his hand.
"Don't you hate this kid?" Jerry asked Helen candidly as he shook the offered hand.

Josephine Angelini

#22. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Paul Weyrich

#23. Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Rick Santorum

#24. You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Sarah Palin

#25. I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

Kristen Stewart

#26. But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

Anton Chekhov

#27. I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

John C. Calhoun

#28. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

#29. The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.

Lisa J. Shultz

#30. I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Abraham Lincoln

#31. Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

John Grogan

#32. Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

Oliver Ellsworth

#33. I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

Mike D

#34. Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!

Caroline Wells Healey Dall

#35. No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

John Ruskin

#36. It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Susan Lucci