J. C. Ryle Quotes

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be as you wish to seem.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

You're authentic when you're honest.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.