Quotes About Honesty

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

We do plenty of high praise, but if a play deserves to be criticized or I don't believe he belongs in the game, the fans deserve to hear it.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.