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You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted. — Bryant McGill

To be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow

I have finally come to realize that it's being forced to be honest with myself that's made my pain painful all along. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way. — Cesar Millan

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that. — Ian McKellen

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do. — Craig Finn

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them. — Sarah Lancashire

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio. — Action Bronson

Some people confuse being blunt with being honest. — Thomas Amo

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that. — Jerry Ferrara

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice. — Robert Kiyosaki

Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being "good" than about being honest. — Henry Cloud

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore. — Angel Olsen

I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.' — Simon Sinek

Commit to always being honest, if not with others then with yourself. — Truth Devour

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people. — Toni Cade Bambara

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest. — J. B. Smoove

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. — Colin Quinn

If we're being honest, then, yeah, it's going to suck donkey ass. But we'll get to the other side, and we'll be together. — Eli Easton

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. — Andrew Solomon

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do. — Bruce Lee

There is no normal. There's only what's right for you and being honest. — Jael McHenry

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest. — Donald Trump

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion. — Chris Bosh

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self. — Aisha Mirza

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers. — James Altucher

I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through. — Sendhil Ramamurthy

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me. — Fiona Apple

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others. — Dalai Lama XIV

No. If I'm being honest, I love knowing that your firsts will all be with me. — Molly McAdams

To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God — David Archuleta

A lie would eventually do more damage than just being honest. — Sadie Grubor

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. — Akira Kurosawa

Being honest with yourself starves the demon inside of you. — Vanessa Garden

We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil. — Zora Neale Hurston

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer — Abraham Lincoln

Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore. — Roberto Bolano

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton

I'm with her simply because I want to be. Because I need to be. Because she needs me, I think, and if I'm being honest, I need her just as much. — J.M. Darhower

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.. — Adyashanti

I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music just got better. — SonReal

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. — Sigmund Freud

Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. — Mary MacCracken

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity? — Orhan Pamuk

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest. — SonReal

I didn't plan to become an atheist. I didn't even want to become an atheist. It's just that I had no choice. If I'm being honest with myself. — Daniel C. Dennett

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. — John Lydon

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat. — John Kenneth Galbraith

When there is limited time left, there is little to lose by being totally honest. — Bronnie Ware

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones. — John Lennon

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses. — Rick Warren

NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled — Roald Dahl

Don't ever regret being honest. Period. — Taylor Swift

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest. — Tsem Tulku

I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying. — Natsuo Kirino

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds. — Sonya Hartnett

If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Cullen. And that was very, very stupid. — Stephenie Meyer

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be. — Rachel McAdams

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest. — Michael Angelakos

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional. — Gary Player

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong. — E.J. Dionne Jr.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. — Tom Hanks

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are. — Bryant McGill

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls. — Jamie Chung

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. — Arthur Dobrin

People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though. — Dan Pearce

It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid. — Gayle Forman

Being honest with yourself will help you recognize when someone is being honest with you. — Charles F. Glassman

Being a leader is hard; being an honest one harder still — David B. Watkins

Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative. — Ron Chernow

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. — Tamsin Greig

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Edward Benson

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest. — Joe Torre

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. — Antony Sher

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things. — Jesse Bradford

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time. — CM Punk

Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners. — Xiaolu Guo

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.
Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master? — Saurabh Sharma

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It ... keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o

Being honest with the public is how they respect you. — Angel Haze

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest. — Larry David

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not. — Patton Oswalt

I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself. — Mary-Kate Olsen

You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything. — Temple Grandin

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. — Kathleen McDonald

I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
And if I'm being honest, I'm getting there — The Wonder Years

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy. — Bruce Jenner

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification — Michel De Montaigne

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two. — Michael Hintze

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. — Thomas Browne

That's called being honest. Wanderers are to wizards what apes are to Wanderers. — Stewart Anderson

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals. — Jason Furman

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest. — Danielle LaPorte

I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest. — Rusty Blackwood

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else. — Stephen Fry

Being alone feels more honest. — Kerry Cohen

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home — Kevin Gates

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling. — Leelee Sobieski