Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make."
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DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself."
Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home"
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government."
Chuck Smith
Author
"God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"I am looking for an honest man."
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"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue."
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"A honest man is seldom a vagrant."
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"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
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"I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen."
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"You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers."
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"Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is."
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"Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough."
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"You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest."
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"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing."
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"I like honest men of all colors."
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"It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true."
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"(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people."
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"The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time."
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"I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest."
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"I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me."
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"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."
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"You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public."
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"A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations."
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