Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

When a man is an upright contender, only real people are bound to be around; but if he is a downright pretender, then fake people surround and always abound to be found.

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to ‘just tell it like it is’. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from ‘what is’.

If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!

I don’t know what ‘Mad Men’ has done for my fan base. I didn’t know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

I couldn’t tell you, to be honest, … Even though I’m playing it, it’s still not my main sport.

I respect those who don’t secretly hate me.

Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.

His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

Dig Deep! When the task at hand seems to be very difficult. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel you’re drifting away from your intended course. Dig Deep! When others doubt you and say it can’t be done. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel like giving up. Dig Deep! When life throws you a curve ball. If you...

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Noise is the art of talking without walking

I can’t hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

To be honest, when you’re running a series and you have an open end, you don’t want to limit yourself too much with the choices you’ve got for a particular character.

When people say to me don’t the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don’t realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

To be honest, I don’t know really what I do on stage.

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.

No one can make you honest. Only your heart and mind can do that.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

The Tone is the Message.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

I can’t impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

Change Yourself” doesn’t imply to be like everyone else, but to comply with everything that helps to be your true self.

Don’t force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top….(as in don’t try hard when people are before you but be glad… instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

Nobody is either honest or dishonest. Life is a gradient, and a saint might be an 8.7, and a dirtbag politician might be a 1.2. Interestingly, piss and shit are numerically represented by 1 and 2, so I think it’s a perfect number to represent a politician.

As a citizen of this country, I’ve got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

All I want is good, honest, loyal friends.

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

I’m inspired by anyone who’s honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Spending some time alone is a therapy that most of us don’t know how to practice. You need a little time alone every now and then to know what you are made of, to know and to do what you really like and to actually like yourself.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I’ve seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don’t see it as a deficiency.

A person who could muster the courage to remove from his daily life the products that he basically doesn’t need would automatically delete the negative thoughts and the toxic people in his life.

Governing isn’t as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory – to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one’s behaviour.

Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!

You ought to go to a boy’s school sometime. Try it sometime,” I said. “It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn...

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.