Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

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

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

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.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Problem with these other niggas they aint never real

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.