Sincerity Quotes

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

Ian M. Banks

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.

Joyce Rachelle

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

George Orwell

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

Philip Zaleski

But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

Elvis Costello

A momentary smile appeared on Cogo's face before fading away. No matter how many times he saw it, he was still amazed by how Kuni's sincerity shaded into an instinct for political theater. He was, of course, moved by the loyalty of a man who would rather be in jail than betray him, but he also knew to play it for all it was worth to cement even more loyalty.

Ken Liu

Will fluorine ever have practical applications?It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.

Henri Moissan

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

Karen Quan

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

Haruki Murakami

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

Sincerity increases willingness to care.

Toba Beta

Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

Miya Yamanouchi

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Emily Post

When we love God in sincerity and with consistency, He gives us the desires of our heart. And as we love Him how we should be loving Him, our desires are somehow supernaturally conformed to be His desires for us! So, love God, with all that you are in all truth and devotion, and He will reward you according to His will. This is not something that we are capable of by ourselves, but God is faithful to give His chosen ones victory!

Rachel Walden

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

Leigh Kotsilidis

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

C.S. Lewis

The great actors always play themselves.

Scott Farris

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

Anonymous

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Thornton Wilder

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

Peter Kreeft

Hell, yes. I love you; that’s not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hell, here comes the Dawson’s Creek.” He grimaced and I chuckled in spite of the moment.His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. “I don’t want to put things off, even though we haven’t been together a really long time. I don’t want to wait—you never know what can . . . Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.

Alice Clayton

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

Criss Jami

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

Brian Spellman

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor

I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood.

Thomm Quackenbush

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live

Mark Leidner

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

Dale Carnegie

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Jane Austen

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

Criss Jami

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

José Saramago

Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior. The Way of the warrior is the Way of the warrior. To be a warrior, look like a warrior and stand like a warrior. Do not be false to yourself.

Miyamoto Musashi

Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.

Toba Beta

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become—I didn’t want to go that far [laughs]. And as long as you’re sincere in what you say, you haven’t got to know what you’re talking about. These are the American virtues—two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too.

James Baldwin

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

Steve Goodier

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant McGill

My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

Crystal Woods

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

John F Kennedy

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Richard Llewellyn

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Idries Shah

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Ron Jacobs

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Matt Chandler

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere

T-anne Constable

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

Farooq A. Shiekh

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Auliq-Ice

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

Criss Jami

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

Shannon L. Alder

June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your childish pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madness.

Anaïs Nin

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

Katie Klein

In our environment,we have answers for almost every question we have,it depends on how sincerely we seek them.

Deeksha Mittal

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Idries Shah

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

Dean Koontz

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

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