George Saunders Quotes

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Too nice, and yet too true!

I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

No lies, just love.

Humility is truth.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

I don't want to be politically correct. I want to be humanly correct.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

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.

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.