Quotes About Sincerity

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Fiecare noapte are acel moment de mare luciditate, de sinceritate nemiloas?, de care eÈ™ti ap?rat, de obicei, prin somn. Eu nu aveam, de data asta, nici o protecÈ›ie. Gândurile erau nude, ustur?toare.

I could never dream of being cool.

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.

Sólo la integridad conduce a la claridad.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.

I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.

We might as well be true with ourselves.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.