Honesty Quotes

I'm conditioned to know that I'm gonna fuck something up, so I go into anything that makes me feel truly vulnerable with an acknowledgment that it may be temporary, or I may be limited in my ability to fulfill this really big thing that doesn't require me to be sharp or witty or dexterous. It requires me to be fucking naive and simple and nice and reliable. I worry about it, because I'm better at: make a joke and leave.

All of my flaws and all the things that make me up are part of who I am. It's about honesty and everything that encompasses: fragility, neuroses, getting it wrong. I stand for being an ambassador of that kind of honesty.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be Honest, loving and trustworthy.

As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.