Quotes About Being Honest With Yourself

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Adyashanti

#5. 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

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

Thomas Wolsey

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

G.K. Chesterton

#10. 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

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

James Jones

#12. 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

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

Amanda Bingson

#14. 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

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

Peter Gizzi

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Danielle LaPorte

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Jonathan Jackson

#23. 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

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

Logan Lerman

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

Natalie Cole

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

David Archuleta

#30. 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

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

James Altucher

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Patrick Lencioni

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

C. JoyBell C.

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Natsuo Kirino

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Syesha Mercado

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Michael Hintze

#48. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee

#49. Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

Douglas Brinkley

#50. 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

#51. I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#52. Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Taylor Swift

#53. To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

H.G.Wells

#54. 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

#55. Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

Dallas Willard

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. I'm with her simply because I want to be. Because I need to be. Because she needs me, I think, and if I'm being honest, I need her just as much.

J.M. Darhower

#59. You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Crowell

#60. Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view ... Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#61. Being honest with yourself starves the demon inside of you.

Vanessa Garden

#62. Even if you don't believe in God and you're praying to the Universe, you're being honest with yourself. Putting your energy into the world shows that you are open to change, to learn, and to receive help.

Demi Lovato

#63. Being honest with yourself will help you recognize when someone is being honest with you.

Charles F. Glassman

#64. Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

Angelina Jolie

#65. By simply being honest with yourself and your food choices, you have stepped away from unconscious eating and toward a place of fuller responsibility. This is the essence of taking charge of your life.

Bob Harper

#66. The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

Joe Strummer

#67. Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you're brutally honest with yourself.

Winna Efendi

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

Patton Oswalt

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

Ryan O'Connell

#70. Commit to always being honest, if not with others then with yourself.

Truth Devour

#71. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

Shannon L. Alder

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Rachel Roy

#76. You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.

Bryant McGill

#77. Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

David Pratt

#78. Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.

Pegi Young

#79. I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#80. Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality

Susan Polis Schutz

#81. If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

John C. Reilly

#82. Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Ang Lee