Seth Godin Quotes

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

We might as well be true with ourselves.

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

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.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.