Best Honest Quotations
3580 Honest quotes by 2410 unique authors
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
— Paulo Coelho
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
— Paulo Coelho
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
— Pamela Anderson
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
— Walter Anderson
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand…
— Mario Andretti
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I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day,…
— Criss Angel
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be…
— Maya Angelou
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You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it…
— Sharron Angle
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead…
— Dale Carnegie
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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
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn…
— Unknown Author
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold…
— Damon Hill
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
— Ximenes Doudan
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Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
— Thomas W. Moore
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of…
— Galen Strawson
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You…
— George Carlin
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have…
— H. L. Mencken
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I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force…
— Kate Hudson
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Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history…
— Spike Lee
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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