Sincerity Quotes

Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.

~ Toba Beta

Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior. The Way of the warrior is the Way of the warrior. To be a warrior, look like a warrior and stand like a warrior. Do not be false to yourself.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

~ José Saramago

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

~ Criss Jami

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

~ Debasish Mridha

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

~ Jane Austen

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

~ Dale Carnegie

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live

~ Mark Leidner

I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

~ Brian Spellman

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

~ Criss Jami

Hell, yes. I love you; that’s not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hell, here comes the Dawson’s Creek.” He grimaced and I chuckled in spite of the moment.His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. “I don’t want to put things off, even though we haven’t been together a really long time. I don’t want to wait—you never know what can . . . Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.

~ Alice Clayton

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

~ Peter Kreeft

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

~ Thornton Wilder

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

~ Confucius

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

~ Anonymous

The great actors always play themselves.

~ Scott Farris

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

~ C.s. Lewis

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

~ Leigh Kotsilidis

When we love God in sincerity and with consistency, He gives us the desires of our heart. And as we love Him how we should be loving Him, our desires are somehow supernaturally conformed to be His desires for us! So, love God, with all that you are in all truth and devotion, and He will reward you according to His will. This is not something that we are capable of by ourselves, but God is faithful to give His chosen ones victory!

~ Rachel Walden

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

~ Emily Post

Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Sincerity increases willingness to care.

~ Toba Beta

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

~ Clifford Geertz

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

~ Haruki Murakami

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

~ Karen Quan

Will fluorine ever have practical applications?It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.

~ Henri Moissan

A momentary smile appeared on Cogo's face before fading away. No matter how many times he saw it, he was still amazed by how Kuni's sincerity shaded into an instinct for political theater. He was, of course, moved by the loyalty of a man who would rather be in jail than betray him, but he also knew to play it for all it was worth to cement even more loyalty.

~ Ken Liu

But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

~ Elvis Costello

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

~ Philip Zaleski

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

~ George Orwell

There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.

~ Joyce Rachelle

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

~ Marcel Proust

Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

~ Ian M. Banks

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

~ T.h. White

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

~ Roger Stone

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

~ Terry Sanford

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

~ George Henry Lewes

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

~ Emily Carr

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

~ Xun Kuang