Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

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 cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

You're authentic when you're honest.

I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.