Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

You can get in front of the media and say, 'Yeah, I'm working hard.' You can't do it in front of those other 52 guys in the locker room. You can't fool your teammates, because they see you. They see you every day, and they see you more than your family sees you.

I really, sincerely and honestly, do the best that I can.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

honesty is hard work.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it, no bullshit. There's no artifice, there's no fanciness, they're just honest and tough and direct.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.