Real Honest Man Quotes

#1. The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert E.Lee

#2. If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Scott Adams

#3. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Abigail Adams

#4. A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#5. Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.

Susan Dennard

#6. I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

Matt Chandler

#7. All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

Josh Homme

#8. See, I know what they think about me. That I'm some project. And, yeah, I'll accept their help. But I'm gonna pay my way. 'Cause you can't let people like that give you anything. They think they own you then. And you know what? Nobody's ever going to own me.

Kirsty Eagar

#9. What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

Leonard Bernstein

#10. I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

David A. Stewart

#11. Home isn't where it used to be. Home is anywhere you hang your head.

Elif Shafak

#12. There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#13. You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.

Thomas Hardy

#15. Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

#16. They didn't trust you," the man in black said.

Rick Riordan

#17. Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

Maureen O'Hara

#18. But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

Milan Kundera

#19. I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

Ansel Elgort

#20. What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

Jim Bishop

#21. I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Robert Sheckley

#22. I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Oliver Stone

#23. It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

Joel Stein