Sincerity Quotes:

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Spiritual, Foundation, Sincerity

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

- Anais Nin

topic: Hate, Struggle, Sincerity, I Adore You, Adore You

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

topic: People, Tolerance, Sincerity

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

- Ann Patchett

topic: Quality, Sincerity, Giver

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

- Billy Graham

topic: Christian, Sincerity, Selling

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

- Blake Griffin

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Shapes, Sincerity

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

topic: Expectations, Done, Sincerity

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

- Cecil Parker

source: "Fictional character: Alfred Munson". "Indiscreet", www.imdb.com. 1958.

topic: Women, Lying, Sincerity

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

- Charles Peguy

topic: Artist, Sincerity, Insincerity

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Hypocrite, Sincerity, Persons, Hypocrit

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

topic: Lying, Sincerity, Christ, True Faith, Faith Trust

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

- Charlotte Lennox

topic: Sometimes, Sincerity, Taxes

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

- Christian Dior

topic: Creativity, Revolution, Sincerity, Often Can, Being Natural

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Loss, Sincerity

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Offensive, Sincerity, Sincere

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

source: Christopher Phillips (2002). “Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy”, p.19, James Clarke & Co.

topic: Honesty, Quality, Sincerity

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

topic: Character, Giving, Sincerity

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

- Confucius

topic: Human Nature, Sincerity, Virtue

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

- Confucius

topic: Sincerity, Faithfulness

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

- Confucius

topic: Heaven, Way, Sincerity

The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

- Corazon Aquino

topic: People, Sincerity, Filipino

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

- Corita Kent

topic: Sincerity, Earnestness

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

- Daniel Schorr

topic: Fake People, Sincerity, Made

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

- David Lloyd George

source: Speech at Aberystwyth, August 3, 1928.

topic: Confidence, Sincerity

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Age, Sincerity, Certain

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

- Edmund White

source: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

topic: Thinking, Technique, Sincerity

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

- Edmund White

source: "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". The Review of Contemporary Fiction Interview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. Fall 1996.

topic: Avant Garde, Sincerity, Realism

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

- Edward Albee

source: Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Mean, Sincerity, Sincere

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

- Eric Cantona

topic: Children, Authenticity, Sincerity

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

topic: Self, Rumor, Sincerity, Filthy

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

- Erwin Schrodinger

topic: Two, Words Of Wisdom, Sincerity

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

- Fatima bint Muhammad

source: "Ayan al-Shī'ah". Book by Fatima bint Muhammad, vol.1, p. 316,

topic: Fasting, Sincerity, Firmness

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

- Frances Power Cobbe

source: Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

topic: Would Be, Sincerity, Panacea

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

- G. B. Caird

source: George Bradford Caird, G. B. Caird, L. D. Hurst (1995). “New Testament Theology”, p.147, Oxford University Press

topic: Vices, Sincerity, Demonic

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

topic: Mistake, People, Sincerity, Impertinence

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

- George Foreman

topic: People, Trust Me, Sincerity

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

- George Oppen

topic: Honesty, Firsts, Sincerity

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

- Gilbert Highet

topic: Demand, Unattainable, Sincerity, Omniscience

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

- Glen Keane

topic: Believe, Character, Sincerity

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

- Gordon Lish

topic: Writing, Crafts, Sincerity

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

- Hattie McDaniel

topic: Hollywood, Pay, Sincerity, New Acquaintances

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lakes, Perfect, Sincerity, Morning Dew

Sincerity does not equal competence.

- Isaac Bonewits

topic: Doe, Sincerity, Equal

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

topic: Atheist, Saint, Sincerity

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

- James Marsden

topic: Character, Ridiculous, Sincerity

To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.

- James Richardson

topic: Believe, Practice, Sincerity

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

- Jean Rostand

topic: Funny, Pessimism, Sincerity

Your words must match what you do. In so many words, you need to show sincerity with your words.

- John Garrett

topic: Trust, Needs, Sincerity

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

- John McCain

topic: Doubt, Sincerity, Should

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

source: "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

topic: Pet, Sincerity, Conviction, Insincerity

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

- Jules Renard

topic: Sincerity, Sincere

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

- Kazimir Malevich

topic: Art, Needs, Sincerity

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

topic: Inward, Influence, Sincerity

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Age, Sincerity, Appeals, Insincerity

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

topic: Mistake, Want, Sincerity

When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

- Mark Fuhrman

source: Mark Fuhrman (2014). “Murder in Brentwood”, p.94, Regnery Publishing

topic: Sincerity, Failing, Offers

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.147

topic: Sincerity, Falsehood

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

- Mary Jo Putney

source: Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Center Point Pub

topic: Fake, Sincerity, Insincerity, Everybody Lies, Best House

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Hands, Simplicity, Sincerity, Hand In Hand

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

topic: World, Christianity, Sincerity

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

- Meher Baba

source: Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

topic: Honest, Life Is, Sincerity, Honest With Yourself, Be Honest With Yourself

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

- Michael Flanders

source: "Song: "The Reluctant Cannibal"". 1991.

topic: Mean, Sincerity, Sincere, Flanders

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

- Nadine Gordimer

topic: Ideas, Sincerity, Oneself

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Vices, Sincerity, Worst, Fanaticism

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

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Mean, Reality, Sincerity

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Mirrors, Way, Sincerity

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

- Peggy Noonan

topic: Strong, Politics, Sincerity

I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

- Rabia Basri

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Sincerity

Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Humility, Names, Sincerity, Chanting

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

- Rembrandt

topic: Men, Deception, Sincerity

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Important, Serious, Sincerity, College Students

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Flower, Modesty, Sincerity

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,

- Sri Yukteswar Giri

source: "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

topic: Beautiful, Good Man, Sincerity

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Patience, Perseverance, Sincerity

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

topic: Commitment, Writing, Sincerity

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Magic, Sincerity, Sincere

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Sincerity, Hypocrit

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

- Tristan Bernard

topic: Men, Sincerity, Sincere

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

- Ugo Betti

source: Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

topic: Sincerity, Spontaneity, Conventions, Slap

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

- Umar

topic: Prayer, Sincerity, Intention

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

topic: Criticism, Sincerity, Anticipate

Sincerity is technique.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Technique, Crafts, Sincerity

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

topic: Florence, Moments, Sincerity, Passing Moments

Sincerity? I can fake that.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Fake, Sincerity

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

- William Wycherley

topic: Doe, Sincerity, Ceremony

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

- Xunzi

topic: Ease, Sincerity, Foresight

As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

source: "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

topic: War, World, Sincerity

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

topic: Sincerity, Critics, Burned

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

source: "Discovering Columbus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

topic: Sleep, Night, Sincerity, Selling Out

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

topic: Today, Becoming, Sincerity

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

- Jeff Pearlman

source: Source: lombardiave.com

topic: Lying, Way, Sincerity

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

- KAORI

topic: Play, Giving, Sincerity

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.

- Buju Banton

topic: Sincerity, Genuine, I'm Only Human

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

topic: People, Tolerance, Sincerity, Destitute

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

- Arthur Schnitzler

topic: Mean, Sincerity, Practicals

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

- C. A. Bartol

topic: Sincerity, Welfare, Public Welfare

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

- Roger Stone

topic: Fake, Sincerity

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

- Scott Avett

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Keys, Painting, Sincerity

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

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Trying, Citizens, Sincerity

Technique is the test of sincerity.

- Ezra Pound

topic: Technique, Tests, Sincerity

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

topic: Sincerity, Teach

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Soul, Quality, Sincerity

The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Quiet, Kind, Sincerity

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

topic: Deeds, Causes, Sincerity

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

topic: Way, Causes, Sincerity, Displeasure

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: "Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

topic: Waiting, Sincerity, Theory

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

- Aesop

source: Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Penguin

topic: Adversity, Tests, Sincerity

Weak people cannot be sincere.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: People, Weakness, Sincerity, Weak People

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Thinking, Sincerity, Distrust

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Friendship, Failing, Sincerity

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Friendship, Heart, Sincerity

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Affection, Ghost, Sincerity, Apparitions

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.

- Paul Valery

topic: Mean, Sincerity, Sincere

We can all humbly say in the sincerity of faith, "I am loved; I am called; I am secure."

- Franklin Graham

source: Franklin Graham, Ross S. Rhoads “All for Jesus: A Devotional”, Harper Collins

topic: Sincerity, Secure

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Sincerity

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

- Luc de Clapiers

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 596-97), Pensées Diverses, No. 372. Gilbert's ed. (1857), Volume I, p. 475, 1922.

topic: Philosophy, Philosopher, Sincerity, Clearness

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Achievement, Steps, Sincerity, Steps Forward

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Faith, Holiness, Sincerity

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

- Tacitus

topic: Fear, Truth, Sincerity, Truth Hurts, I Speak The Truth

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

- Confucius

topic: Firsts, Sincerity, Faithfulness

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.52, Courier Corporation

topic: Sincerity, Instruction, Given

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

topic: Would Be, Sincerity, Ends

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

- Confucius

topic: Men, Speech, Sincerity, Superior Man

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

topic: Thinking, Sorrow, Sincerity

Sincerity is moral truth.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

topic: Moral, Sincerity

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Glasses, Sincerity, Diamond

According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Motivation, Purpose, Sincerity

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Spiritual, Sincerity, Masters, Spiritual Masters

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

- Thomas Browne

source: Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.144

topic: Flattery, Sincerity, Jugglers

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

topic: Sincerity, Sincere

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

- Rajneesh

topic: Integrity, Meditation, Sincerity

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

- John de Ruiter

topic: Self, Weight, Sincerity

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Pay, Sincerity, Complement

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.195, Algora Publishing

topic: Practice, Effort, Sincerity

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.137, University of Missouri Press

topic: Knowing, Sincerity, Mood, Always Knowing

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

topic: Sincerity, Mood, Prophet, Holden

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Humility, Errors, Sincerity

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

- Ramakrishna

source: Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

topic: Realizing, Sincerity, Earnestness

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

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

topic: Excellence, Technique, Sincerity, Sounder

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Doubt, Painful, Sincerity

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

topic: Betrayal, Artist, Sincerity

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

- John Lancaster Spalding

topic: Sincerity, Livelihood, Suspicious

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Confused, Worship, Sincerity, Frankness, Candor

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Sincerity, Sincere, Vow

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Sincerity, Difficult

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

- John Wooden

topic: May, Helping, Sincerity

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Guarantees, Sincerity

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Sincerity, Willingness

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

- Mencius

source: Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.179

topic: Moving, Able, Sincerity

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

- Henri Matisse

source: Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

topic: Influence, Sincerity, Cowardice, Avoided

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Criticism, Sincerity, Candor

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

topic: Thinking, Sincerity, Sincere

The Devil hinders me. You know I say Just what I think, and nothing more nor less, And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer. I cannot say one thing and mean another. If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: "Selected Poems".

topic: Mean, Thinking, Sincerity

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

- Juvenal

topic: World, Sincerity, Assurance, Confiding, Undertakings

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Love Is, World, Sincerity, Beads

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

- Willa Cather

topic: Feelings, Sincerity, Finest

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

- Billy Graham

source: "Billy Graham: His Life and Influence". Book by David Aikman (p. 37), October 9, 2007.

topic: Christian, Sincerity, Selling, Plan Of Salvation

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Emotion, Sincerity, Pathos

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

topic: Self, And Love, Sincerity, Quickness

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

- Bob Saget

source: Twitter post from Sep 01, 2012

topic: Fake, Politics, Sincerity

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Heartfelt, Religion, Sincerity, Conscientiousness

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Prayer, Tests, Sincerity

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

- Sallust

topic: Feelings, Tears, Sincerity, Rascals

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

- Samuel Johnson

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.29

topic: Sincerity, Calculating

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

- Samuel Smiles

source: Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.238

topic: Sincerity, Politeness, Truest

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.339

topic: Firsts, Misery, Sincerity

Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Trying, Violence, Sincerity, Educated Person

You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it.

- Shania Twain

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Done, Little Things, Sincerity

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

topic: Addresses, Sincerity, Silent

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

- Shunryu Suzuki

source: Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

topic: Cooking, Kitchen, Sincerity

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.272, Wild Jot Press

topic: Doe, Sincerity, Emma

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

topic: Sides, Sincerity, Bores, Earnestness