H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Honest and disciplined decisions are almost never regretted.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.”
“Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.”
“Honest Awareness Of Our Needs Is The Foundation On Which Inspiration Rests”.”
“Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.”
“Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?”
Source: The Privilege of the Sword
“Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.”
“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866
“Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”
“Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.”
“Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.”
Source: 40 Key Questions about Our Foreign Policy: Answered in Important Addresses and Statements Delivered Between 1941 and 1952
“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
“Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”
Source: The Chosen
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
“Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.”
“Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer,” he added jokingly.”
Source: The Syrian Virgin
“Honest dissent and unorthodox ideas often promote scientific knowledge. Even though more often wrong than right, unorthodox ideas are apt to stimulate some clear thinking among the orthodox. And from time to time, a doubter makes a basic discovery. But the lysenkoism is quite sterile of ideas and of suggestions for new experiments. It urges a retreat to archaic views, long abandoned with sufficient reason. In this, the lysenkoism is comparable only to the anti-evolutionism in the USA. New arguments and new facts mean just as little to the lysenkoists as they do to the anti-evolutionists.”
Source: The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
“Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.”
“Honest error may play prologue to wonders.”
Source: Death Watch
“Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.”
“Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.”
Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more
“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“Honest history is the weapon of freedom.”
“Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.”
Source: Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet
“Honest, I'm a liar. Believe me?”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Honest intentions, self-dedication, and constant self-aspiration is required to inspire the hidden intuition and dimension in us at a higher conscious level. This is the milestone to earn wisdom and enter the kingdom of God.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.”
Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Honest is my policy. That's in fact my problem.”
Source: Jasmine Days
“honest is the best policy”
“Honest leaders don't come from a system; they always come out of a system.”
“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.”
“Honest man get hated but he never get doubted.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?'
'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.'
Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?'
'Yes'
He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.”
“Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.”
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.”
Source: The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
“Honest men have very little fun in life. It’s a well-known fact.”
Source: Pravda
“Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.”
“Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.”
“Honest people do not belong in Florida.”
“honest people don’t hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)”
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Honest people have no ethics”
“Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.”
Source: The True Patriot
“Honest people will always be hated, not because they are incorrect (they may be exactly right), but because some loathe truth and its agents.”
“Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.”
“Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.”