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I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Oct 1, 2025
History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
Have the strength to be an honest person.
If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.
One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
I'm the only honest person in Washington.
I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.
As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.
The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.
I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.