Quotes About Honesty

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.