Sincere famous quotes
05-14-2025
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Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
-- Alexander Pope -
The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?
-- Allison Mackie -
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
-- Arnold Bennett -
If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.
-- Barack Obama -
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
-- Benny Hill -
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
-- Christopher Meloni -
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
-- Confucius -
You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
-- Edward Albee -
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.
-- Emile Gaboriau -
It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.
-- Fritz Machlup -
The most sincere form of love is love for food
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
-- Georges Rouault -
Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.
-- Greg LeMond -
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
-- Greta Garbo -
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
-- Isabelle Eberhardt -
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
-- J. B. Priestley -
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
-- Jean Racine -
Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.
-- John Bradshaw -
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
-- John Coltrane -
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
-- John Tillotson -
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
-- Josh McDowell -
I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.
-- Lee Kun-hee -
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
-- Lord Byron -
You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.
-- Marty Feldman -
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
-- Marya Mannes -
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
-- Maurice Denis -
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
-- Mencius -
Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
-- Michael Flanders -
I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.
-- Michele Bachmann -
When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.
-- Milan Kundera -
In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.
-- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah -
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.
-- Nathanael Emmons -
How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt.
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
-- Omar Suleiman -
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.
-- Pope John XXIII -
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
-- Pope Pius XI -
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.
-- Ramon Llull -
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.
-- Robert Wagner -
You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
-- Russell Simmons -
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
-- Saint Augustine -
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
-- Sam Walton -
I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
-- Sara Zarr -
God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.
-- Sarada Devi -
I'm very real, very sincere and honest, and that's how I'll always be.
-- Selena -
Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace.
-- Shri Radhe Maa -
Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
-- Sri Chinmoy -
Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ.
-- T. B. Joshua -
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
-- Terry Goodkind -
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
-- Tristan Bernard -
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.
-- Walter J. Phillips -
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.
-- William Arthur Ward -
The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.
-- Genndy Tartakovsky -
there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.
-- J. E. Buckrose -
When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.
-- Kelli O'Hara -
Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.
-- Michel Ocelot -
Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.
-- Patanjali -
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.
-- Zicheng Hong -
People can see it when you're honest and sincere.
-- Chamillionaire -
Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.
-- Emile Gaboriau -
Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments.
-- Rosemary M. Wixom
