Quotes About Honesty

Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I don't have a brother in real life.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

But you can't work for a man you don't trust. Etch that in stone.

Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy