Seneca the Younger Quotes

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

I am not a hypocrite.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

I would despise myself if I thought that I was procuring your votes by concealing my opinions, and by avowing one set of principles in one part of the state and a different set in another.

I don't want people to think lm hypocritical.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.