Mary Browne Quotes

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Mary Browne

• Honesty

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• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Think
  • Same
  • Honesty

• T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Respect
  • More
  • Bride

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Money
  • Friends

• Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • True
  • Thought
  • Honesty

• My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Respect

• My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Change
  • Honesty
  • Efficiency

• I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Poetry
  • Honesty
  • Modern

• I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Song
  • Fight
  • Honesty

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

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Live
  • Confidence
  • Honor

• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Mistake

• I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Moments
  • Honesty
  • Collapse

• The essence of good government is trust.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Good
  • Trust

• After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Value

• The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

  

  Mary Browne
  • Honesty