Sincerity Quotes

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.

~ Albert Camus

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Meia Geddes

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.

~ Jesse Andrews

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

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?

~ Orhan Pamuk

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

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

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.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Criss Jami

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

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

...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

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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.

~ Colin Quinn

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

~ Thiruvalluvar

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Amanda L. Chan

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

~ A.w. Tozer

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

~ Idries Shah

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

~ Dean Koontz

In our environment,we have answers for almost every question we have,it depends on how sincerely we seek them.

~ Deeksha Mittal

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

~ Katie Klein

June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your childish pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madness.

~ Anaïs Nin

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the why that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

~ Auliq Ice

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

~ Farooq A. Shiekh

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

~ Idries Shah

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

~ Richard Llewellyn

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

~ John F. Kennedy

My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

~ Crystal Woods

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

~ Bryant Mcgill

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

~ Steve Goodier

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become—I didn’t want to go that far [laughs]. And as long as you’re sincere in what you say, you haven’t got to know what you’re talking about. These are the American virtues—two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too.

~ James Baldwin

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

~ Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak