Quotes About Honesty

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

I always wanted to win or lose based on who I am.

Speak from your heart, not your head. You speak from your head, you can wind up getting yourself in a lot of crap. You speak from your heart, I think you're pretty safe.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.

When officials lie, we lose faith in authority, get our information elsewhere and throw caution to the wind.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget. You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.

Truth comes out in wine.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

For the record, I've never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn't need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.