Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

Tell the children the truth.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.