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Quotes About Honesty

Young people want you to be real with them.
~ Magic Johnson
The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
~ Manny Montana
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
~ Martha Grimes
-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.
~ Melissa Marr
I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.
~ Peter Facinelli
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
~ Randy Harrison
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
~ Robert Herjavec
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something
~ Walter Isaacson
You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.
~ Christopher Moore
We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
~ Kevin Drew
I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.
~ Anders Petersen
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
~ Andy Stanley
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
~ Ben Folds
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .
~ Benjamin Franklin
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
~ Bill Mollison
People just want honest music.
~ Caleb Shomo
I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.
~ D'Angelo
Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.
~ Dean Smith
I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.
~ Dwight Gooden
I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.
~ Eli Manning
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
~ Karl Pilkington
Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.
~ Reese Witherspoon
I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.
~ Aaron Bruno
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
~ Ada Leverson