Sincerity Quotes - Page 2

Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy – acceptance.

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

Bangambiki Habyarimana

...God expects every man to be what he claims to be. If we say things we do not believe, and profess things we do not feel, and lay claim to things we do not possess, we are tricksters and deceivers, causing mischief and confusion in the world.

Charles Jefferson

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

Charles Jefferson

So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms. But I don't feel like lying to you. She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love. She seemed less pissed with me after my stupid outburst, but she basically just went from irritable to quiet.

I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a secret: life is deadly. I'll have to interrupt everything to tell you this: death is the impossible and intangible. Death is just future to such an extent that there are those who cannot bear it and commit suicide. It's as life said the following: and there simply was no following.

Clarice Lispector

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor

True kindness ennobles the giver

Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.

Cassandra Clare

If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!

Israelmore Ayivor

Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!

Israelmore Ayivor

The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is "a lie'.

Israelmore Ayivor

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

Israelmore Ayivor

To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it "your vote will not be lost"!

Israelmore Ayivor

I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former.

Donna Lynn Hope

Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if you should maintain the truth…

Israelmore Ayivor

I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.

Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas

If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can't be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!

Israelmore Ayivor

If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17

Lao Tzu

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.

Clarice Lispector

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future!

Honoré de Balzac

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

Aberjhani

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end andlearn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.

Haruki Murakami

Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity.

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.

Sincerity is nothing to express, it appears over the period. Just try to hold and wait....

Muhammad Danish Adeel

It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.

I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,Whenever I reach in front of you.I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true.

Never forget your past for your future as one day your future will again be your past

Mizan Chaudhury

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Euripides

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Euripides

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