Top 100 Real Honest Quotes
#1. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.
Greg Pak
#2. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
Taylor Mali
#3. I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
Octavia Spencer
#4. But best of all ... I got love. Not love under fear or condition. Not love that comes with a price. I got real, honest to god love in all its purest forms. Family love. Friend love. Unconditional love.
Samantha Towle
#5. It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.
Shakti Gawain
#6. I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.
Hill Harper
#7. Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.
Scott Weiss
#8. It's a little blip. There's a tiny little blip in my belly. Tiny. Wow. I forget my discomfort as I stare dumbfounded at the blip ... The little blip is a baby. A real honest to goodness baby. Christian's baby. My baby. Holy cow. A baby! - Ana Grey
E.L. James
#9. To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.
Teresa Heinz
#10. There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.
Rebecca St. James
#11. To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#12. Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
J.C. Ryle
#13. Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character ... such release has no artistic form.
Richard Hornby
#14. Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.
Alan Autry
#15. 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
#16. I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way
John Legend
#17. For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
Jon Secada
#18. For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.
Darynda Jones
#19. It's then that I scream. Loudly. A real, honest-to-god, banshee-like wail. I mean, I didn't even know my voice could hit an octave that high.
Julie Johnson
#20. If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
#21. Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.
Willie Stargell
#22. You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it's coming from.
Teddy Thompson
#23. Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#24. I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.
Penelope Mortimer
#25. The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else ...
Andrew Jenson
#26. I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'
Tim Tebow
#27. You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
Suze Orman
#28. Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.
Bob Odenkirk
#29. You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#30. Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
John Lescroart
#31. I have been the patient one. I have waited for the world to stop being silly. I have waited for it to stop wars. I have waited for politicians to be honest. I have waited for real estate men to be good citizens. But while I wait, I dance!
Ray Bradbury
#32. The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#33. I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
#34. Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing
Thomas A. Edison
#35. I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.
Taylor Swift
#36. She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light.
Shannon Hale
#38. First kisses didn't necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.
Liane Moriarty
#39. There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.
Andrea Seigel
#40. In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
Baltasar Kormakur
#41. Getting to know him made me take a real good look at myself. I don't like what I see. I want to be honest with him but I've spent so long lying to everyone, I don't even really know who I am anymore.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#42. But let's be honest. Real good can come from never missing Sunday-morning worship. Real good comes from guarding what you watch. Good can come from guarding your life in these ways. But as a means to or measure of our righteousness? These things will always fall short.
Matt Chandler
#43. When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#44. My children keep me real and keep me honest.
Brooke Burke
#45. "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.
Larry Wilmore
#46. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.
Jon Steele
#47. Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
Lisa Marie Presley
#48. I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.
Steve Earle
#49. Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.
Jessiqua Wittman
#50. Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
Larry Gelbart
#51. Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.
Jacque Fresco
#52. I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.
Christina Aguilera
#53. The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.
Ralph Marston
#54. The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.
Ivanka Trump
#55. Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.
Christina Aguilera
#56. Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
Robert A. Heinlein
#57. People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though.
Dan Pearce
#58. You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
Dan Miller
#59. At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number ... is $1.2 trillion.
Judd Gregg
#60. The best safeguard against bad literature is a full experience of good; just as a real and affectionate acquaintance with honest people gives a better protection against rogues than a habitual distrust of everyone.
C.S. Lewis
#61. To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
Rachel Sklar
#62. Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.
Tim Lebbon
#63. Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
Anna Quindlen
#64. I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
R.A. Dickey
#65. I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.
Pixie Lott
#66. Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It's heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.
Christina Perri
#67. I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into.
Paul Rust
#68. That girl was the real me. Frightened. Worthless. A terrible friend. Terrible daughter. Well educated but so limited in ideas worth having. Beautiful yet repulsive ...
And finally honest.
Fisher Amelie
#69. The one thing I've always admired about my relationship with Ridge is that we're so honest and real with each other. I've always been able to say exactly what I was thinking, and so has he. I don't like this shift we've made.
Colleen Hoover
#70. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#71. Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
Olympia Dukakis
#72. 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
#73. Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.
Jesse L. Martin
#74. On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.
Russell Peters
#75. When you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real ...
John Geddes
#76. Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Jerry Ferrara
#77. A whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.
C.S. Lewis
#78. It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).
T.F. Hodge
#80. There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#81. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#82. 'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.
Johnny Depp
#83. England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#84. I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
Tim Heidecker
#85. I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.
Christina Aguilera
#86. I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
Bea Arthur
#87. There aren't any type of programs which I have been used to do this... it's real as hell and death was in my pocket. - DeYtH Banger
Deyth Banger
#88. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world. How much of my solicitude for other human beings is real and honest, how much is a feigned lacquer painted on by society, I do not know.
Sylvia Plath
#89. But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.
Jen Hatmaker
#90. 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
#91. Truly honest people don't have many friends, but they do have real friends
Steven Aitchison
#92. How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
James Bay
#93. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
#94. Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.
Tibor Kalman
#95. Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you
Renzo Gracie
#96. I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.
Jeri Ryan
#97. When someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real ...
John Geddes
#98. By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
#99. To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
Christina Hendricks
#100. Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.
Jon Voight
