96+ Best Candid Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Candid is honest and telling the truth, especially about something difficult or painful. Profoundly inspirational candid quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

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Famous Candid Quotes

Be candid with everyone. Jack Welch

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. Khalil Gibran

If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. Sonia Sotomayor

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. Jean Baudrillard

I call it like I see it. I don’t hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues. Jerry Doyle

Truth between candid minds can never do harm. Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating. David Shields

I am what I am and I’m a horrible liar. I can’t do it. I’m just very candid. Pamela Anderson

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. Richard M. Nixon

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists. Lawrence Wilkerson

Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don’t have the sensitivity or decency. I’m a member of the media myself I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don’t suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid. Karan Johar

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. Amos Bronson Alcott

I might be Candid Camera’s number one fan. Michael Carbonaro

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. Rose Kennedy

What scared me in that debate is that it’s not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don’t even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. Michael K. Powell

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve. Nia Vardalos

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. Oscar Wilde

People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming. Krystal Ball

I call it like I see it. I don’t hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues. Jerry Doyle

Shooting on the iPhone has become more of a directors’ tool to lower inhibition of first time actors and nonprofessionals. While it’s helped me become more mobile, no pun intended running around, finding tight areas and different ways of moving the camera to me it’s more about using this device to catch candid moments. That’s the biggest thing. Sean Baker

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. Andre Maurois

I’m very candid. Larry Wilcox

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good natured Man. Oliver Goldsmith

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process  reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul. Edwin Catmull

People are afraid because I’m candid. They’re always worried I’m going to get into trouble. Steve Madden

Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us. Roy Blunt

If I don’t have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on. Jennifer Lawrence

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do anything. If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. Zig Ziglar

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow. Franz Grillparzer

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast to coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we’d introduced on Night Beat. But that proved easier said than done. Mike Wallace

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. William Petty

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. Mika

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. Rose Kennedy

You know what, I’m not ashamed of anything that happened. I fall in love really hard, I do. I go deep. That person is it for me. And I love hard, and when it’s over, it’s over, and some people make mistakes. I wouldn’t call it a mistake, it just is what happened in my life, so I’m excited to see what the future holds. It happened, and now I have to say I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Kaley Cuoco

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. Carl Sandburg

Honesty in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty. Judith Martin

I’m today’s woman, candid and a woman of substance. Sherlyn Chopra

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It’s great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don’t believe that. Jerry West

We’re talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it’s very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. Alberto Gonzales

Really, I’m incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don’t necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. Kristen Stewart

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth and that people can change for the better. Glen Campbell

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. Sidney Lanier

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It’s great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don’t believe that. Jerry West

We’re talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it’s very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. Alberto Gonzales

A pastor has to be media savvy if he’s going to reach everybody. I don’t mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don’t like you start listening. Jerry Falwell

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. Carl Sandburg

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. Mika

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! George Canning

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn’t read that way. Michael Buble

Don’t hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. John C. Maxwell

Really, I’m incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don’t necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. Kristen Stewart

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I’m there. Susan Rice

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! George Canning

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men’s virtues and good qualities. Isaac Barrow

To be candid, I think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to work at AOL when I did. I think I had rose colored glasses about the opportunity to reinvent AOL. Brad Garlinghouse

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. John Quincy Adams

I’ve always been a pretty candid person. I’m not a very secretive person; I’m not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet. Andrew Sullivan

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. Lindsey Graham

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow. Franz Grillparzer

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. Lindsey Graham

If I am who I am, I’m provocative, candid, and androgynous; there’s nothing I can do that will make any fan think, I didn’t expect that from her. Halsey

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor a very Canadian sense of humor. Michael Buble

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. Salmon P. Chase

What scared me in that debate is that it’s not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don’t even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. Michael K. Powell

People are afraid because I’m candid. They’re always worried I’m going to get into trouble. Steve Madden

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. Robert Browning

I know it’s not particularly tech savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn’t have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there’s nothing better than a disposable camera. Derek Blasberg

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don’t manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will. Jack Welch

Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It’s more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important. Gretchen Carlson

It’s all very confusing. I think I’m very honest and candid, but I’m also proud of how honest and candid I am so where does that put me? David Foster Wallace

We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and films that represent a beauty standard that we’ll never meet. People don’t realize that there are makeup artists and hairstylists behind the scenes even in something as simple as a candid Instagram photo.  Philomena Kwao

I’m fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching Candid Camera and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you’re dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve. Howie Mandel

I would watch Punk’d or Candid Camera I love the shows, but also I would feel bad about the people that were getting pranked. James Murray

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know. Robert Green Ingersoll

We’re certainly not in position to expand into the East. We’ve been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it. Gary Bettman

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. Bill Bradley

To be perfectly candid, we’re better at stealing other people’s secrets than anyone else in the world. But we self limit. We steal secrets to keep our citizens free and safe. Michael Hayden

Politics the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. Frank Herbert

I am what I am and I’m a horrible liar. I can’t do it. I’m just very candid. Pamela Anderson

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. James Madison

Honesty in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty. Judith Martin

Let me just be candid My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that’s despicable. Colin Powell

Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family. Allu Arjun

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I’ve ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid. Sanjay Gupta

I admit that, for the first month of his candidacy, I had my concerns about Trump. I questioned, for example, whether someone with such cutting yet candid honesty, a candidate who veered so sharply from so many of the usual political expectations, could ever become president. Kayleigh McEnany

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do anything. If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. Zig Ziglar

The secret to understanding me is, I’m not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I’ve always tried to go with solutions. You know, I’ve always tried to say, here’s how we get our economy growing, here’s why we get our debt under control. That’s what Mitt Romney is offering. Paul Ryan

I do serve on various boards and I’m very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

While many Americans agree that the system is rigged economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service. Calvin Coolidge

We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources and, crucially, the candid feedback that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film. Edwin Catmull

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it’s more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself. Connor Franta

Yash has always been straight forward in his approach and is very open and candid in his opinions. I guess this is why most people approach him for advice. Radhika Pandit