Sincerity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
-- Anais Nin -
The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.
-- Anders Petersen -
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
-- Ann Patchett -
‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.
-- Billy Graham -
The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.
-- Blake Griffin -
I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
-- Bruce Lee -
There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
-- Cecil Parker -
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
-- Charles Peguy -
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
-- Christian Dior -
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
-- Christopher Meloni -
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
-- Christopher Phillips -
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
-- Claude Monet -
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
-- Confucius -
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
-- Confucius -
The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.
-- Corazon Aquino -
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
-- Daniel Schorr -
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
-- David Lloyd George -
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique
-- Edmund White -
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
-- Edmund White -
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
-- Edward Albee -
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
-- Eric Cantona -
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
-- Erich von Stroheim -
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
-- Frances Power Cobbe -
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
-- G. B. Caird -
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
-- George D. Prentice -
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
-- George Oppen -
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
-- Gilbert Highet -
Believe in the character; animate with sincerity
-- Glen Keane -
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
-- Gordon Lish -
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
-- Hattie McDaniel -
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.
-- Jacques Maritain -
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
-- James Marsden -
To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.
-- James Richardson -
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
-- Jean Rostand -
Your words must match what you do. In so many words, you need to show sincerity with your words.
-- John Garrett -
I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
-- John McCain -
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.
-- Jonathan Yardley -
In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.
-- Kazimir Malevich -
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
-- Laurence Sterne -
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
-- Lionel Barrymore -
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
-- Malcolm X -
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.
-- Mark Fuhrman -
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
-- Mary Jo Putney -
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft -
No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
-- Max Muller -
Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
-- Meher Baba -
Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
-- Michael Flanders -
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
-- Peggy Noonan -
I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
-- Rabia Basri -
Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.
-- Radhanath Swami -
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
-- Rembrandt -
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
-- Robert M. Hutchins -
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,
-- Sri Yukteswar Giri -
Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
-- Tahar Ben Jelloun -
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
-- Terry Goodkind -
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
-- Thomas Fuller -
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
-- Tristan Bernard -
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
-- Ugo Betti -
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
-- Umar -
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
-- Victoria Woodhull -
Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
-- William Butler Yeats -
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
-- William Wycherley -
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
-- Xunzi -
As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.
-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
-- Zane Grey -
I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.
-- Columbus Short -
You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
-- Eugene O'Neill -
I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.
-- Jeff Pearlman -
Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.
-- KAORI -
I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.
-- Buju Banton -
The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.
-- Anders Petersen -
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.
-- Roger Stone -
In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.
-- Scott Avett -
I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.
-- Stromae
