Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor an actor a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character then your audience will believe you.

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel to be quite honest.

If one's honest about it spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

There are two way of establishing a reputation one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best however to secure the first one because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right not from policy.

No one can really honestly be the very best no one.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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

Honestly I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.