Quotes About Being Honest About Yourself

#1. And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Questlove

#2. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#3. I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.

Aziz Ansari

#4. Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Chet Faker

#5. I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
And if I'm being honest, I'm getting there

The Wonder Years

#6. I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.

Christopher Rice

#7. I don't think that the administration is being particularly honest with the American people about what this is going to cost in life and in dollars, what the dangers are, retaliatory strikes, once it happens. This is not a war that needs to happen immediately, if ever.

Janeane Garofalo

#8. I knew it from the first day we worked together but I didn't know what to do about it. I'd never, ever felt that way about anyone before, but she really didn't seem that impressed by me. And she had a boyfriend, although that had never stopped me before if we're being entirely honest.

Lindsey Kelk

#9. To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Prince Harry

#10. Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.

Tyler Oakley

#11. Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

Sarah Lancashire

#12. Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

Rick Warren

#13. Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

Tom Odell

#14. I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

Rob Lowe

#15. Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

Jaime Murray

#16. But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Coolio

#17. I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

Steve Earle

#18. I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Sharon Stone

#19. 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

#20. Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Olympia Dukakis

#21. You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

Patton Oswalt

#22. You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.

Ryan O'Connell

#23. What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.

Sarah Steele

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Amanda Bingson

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Danielle LaPorte

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

Natalie Cole

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

#36. 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

#37. And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

Fiona Apple

#38. True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

Debbie Ford

#39. Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

Tim Walker

#40. You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.

Jessie Cave

#41. Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

J.G. Ballard

#42. There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

Bryant McGill

#43. Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

Kate Winslet

#44. With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Marketa Irglova