quotations about sincerity
Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Sincerity is not to say everything you think but to mean everything you say.
ANONYMOUS
Sincerity is an expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
ANONYMOUS
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
LAO TZU
Wen-Tzu: Understanding the Mysteries
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE
The Critic as Artist
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
The Principles of Success in Literature
Sincerity is about being yourself, but doing a very good job at it.
BRYCE SANDERS
"How to judge if someone is being sincere", Biz Journals, November 30, 2016
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.
MARK FUHRMAN
Murder in Brentwood
Sincerity is the face of the soul.
SANIAL-DUBAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Blindness
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G. I. GURDJIEFF
Views From the Real World
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON
attributed, The Communication Catalyst
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Lectures on English Poets
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
Sincerity does not and cannot substitute for truth.
JIMMY PRITCHARD
Calling Down the Fire
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Friendship", Essays
He loves
With sweetness and sincerity
While she can only pretend
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
"Sincerity"
Sincerity is the way of heaven.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
Sincerity
The road we need to travel for a better way of life
Sincerity
An attitude we need to take if we want to survive
LISA STANSFIELD
"Sincerity"