Jesse L. Martin Quotes

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

I am humble enough to understand there are many people who know much more than I do on many subjects, so I listen to them. Integrity is also critical to leadership, so I believe there must always be alignment between what you think, say, and do.

My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces.

You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.