Seth Godin Quotes

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

I don't think it is good if everyone says 'yes' when they mean 'no.'

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

Most style is not honest enough.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Being slick is not the right answer.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

I cannot deceive my people.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

I can't make someone tell the truth. But I can ask.

Ya know, I just want a girl to be honest.