Top 86 Quotes About Honesty With Self
#1. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#2. Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#3. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#4. No, I'm thinking about myself - my black old inside self, the real one, with the fundamental honesty that keeps me from being absolutely wicked by making me realize my own sins.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.
Kevin DeYoung
#6. Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
#7. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
Pandora Poikilos
#9. Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
#10. A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.
Elijah Wood
#11. I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am ...
Jesse Ventura
#12. His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#13. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#14. Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.
Junot Diaz
#15. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#16. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
#17. It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
C.S. Lewis
#18. People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.
Soren Kierkegaard
#19. Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.
Thomas Wolsey
#20. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
#21. It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.
Fuyumi Soryo
#22. People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.
David A. Bednar
#23. Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
Edmund Phelps
#24. Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.
Amanda Hocking
#25. If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
Vidya Balan
#27. When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#29. Looking for honest ways to lift one another would ... be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.
Neal A. Maxwell
#30. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
Marcus Aurelius
#32. 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
#33. With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self - our own unique noble purpose.
Tom Hayes
#34. Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
Al Yankovic
#35. From Open House
My truths are all foreknown,
This anguish self-revealed.
I'm naked to the bone,
With nakedness my shield.
Myself is what I wear:
I keep the spirit spare.
Theodore Roethke
#36. Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work! Subconsciously, we should be constantly asking ourselves this question: Do I need to freak out about this?
Ryan Holiday
#37. In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic, life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings, and with increasing prayer to our God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
Frederick Lenz
#39. You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.
Laura Dave
#40. I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.
Aisha Mirza
#41. The fruits of our actions are always interconnected with the roots of honesty towards our inner self. The liar is an enemy to himself
Robin Sacredfire
#42. Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.
Dr Robin Lincoln Wood
#43. There are only 2 type of people in this world
1 st those respect self, respect others, live with dignity and honest
2 nd those sell their soul.and cheat all everyone from human to God
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#44. You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
John Cassavetes
#45. Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
Eric Zorn
#46. To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
Lucan
#47. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#48. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#49. He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#50. Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
Kangana Ranaut
#51. I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.
Jeaniene Frost
#52. I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
Christopher Phillips
#53. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs
only a price.
F. Sionil Jose
#55. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
#56. The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
R.D. Laing
#57. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
Paul D. Boyer
#58. No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
Charles Comiskey
#59. You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
Sarah Dessen
#60. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#61. As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
Stephen King
#62. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.
Quentin Bryce
#63. Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
#64. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.
Frank Sonnenberg
#65. In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
David Wenham
#66. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
#67. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare
#68. I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.
Sharon Tate
#69. Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
Bob Feller
#70. We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
John McWhorter
#71. Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
Rory Stewart
#72. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#73. Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, how far I can go with you, how far I can take you-if you can't be honest with me, then we really can't do this.
E.L. James
#74. At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important
Nicholas Sparks
#75. He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?
Kate Morgenroth
#76. Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.
L.M. Fields
#77. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#78. All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
Mark Twain
#80. With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#81. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
Bell Hooks
#84. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Neil Postman
#85. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
