George Whitefield Quotes

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.

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

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

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

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

I admit that I have more truth than eloquence.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

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

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

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

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.

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

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.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.