In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
Kina Grannis"Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.
anthony de melloIt is the first rational exposition of the relations of mankind to the mystery which shrouds the how and wherefore of man's existence, the first honest protest against our long, long martyrdom.
harry johnstonIt is good to be merry and wise. It is good to be honest and true. It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.
He had the haughtiness of Henry the Eighth, without his spirit; the avarice of Henry the Seventh, without his exactions; the indignities of Charles the First, without his bigotry for his prerogative; the vexations of King William, with as little skill in the management of parties; and the gross gallantry of his father, without his goodnature or his honesty:– he might, perhaps, have been honest, if he had never hated his father, or had ever loved his son.
george ii of great britainThe greatest want of the world is the want of men—men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
ellen g. whiteThe Inquisitor is the forgiving father, the scientific materialist, and the social engineer. He is the most compassionate, and honest, of politicians; he takes on great burdens of responsibility in order to protect his subjects from ethical doubt. But he also suppresses any attempt to expand their self-consciousness: he is the ‘great simplifier’, the shepherd to a flock of carefree children.
john carrollIt is the honest lies we tell statements factually correct and essentially deceiving which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.
henry s. haskinsDemosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
philip sidneyIt's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander PopeI pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
john adamsToday we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.
Queen Elizabeth IIÉdouard Fournier, in L'Espirit dans l'Historie (1867), 3rd edition, Ch. 51, p. 260, disputes the traditional attribution, and suggests various agents of Richelieu might have been the actual author. Variant translations: Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him.
cardinal richelieuWe disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him. If nothing else, he's absolutely honest in his lunacy — and I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide.
hunter s. thompsonWithout courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest .
maya angelouWhat is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
h. l. menckenhonest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham YoungMan is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
John FletcherNo man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails.
william shakespearehonest labour bears a lovely face.
thomas dekker