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Quotes About Sincerity

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
~ Aesop
Are you carrying anything that could be dangerous for the other passengers? O just my heart!
~ Agha Shahid Ali
I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
~ Aidan Chambers
The people of Minnesota value a politician who believes what he says and says what he believes and votes that way.
~ Al Franken
We need panels of gold and lapis, windows of coloured glass and gardens of immaculately raked gravel in order to stay true to the sincerest parts of ourselves.
~ Alain de Botton
His clumsiness is at least an incidental sign of his sincerity: we tend not to get very anxious when seducing people we don't much care about.
~ Alain de Botton
Proust was not well place to enjoy honest friendships. For a start, he had far too many true but unkind thoughts about people.
~ Alain de Botton
I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.
~ Alain de Botton
Efortul-o cale spre autenticitate ?i glorie.
~ Alain de Botton
Moi je veux pleurer maintenant, pas après ! Je veux être le premier parce que si je pleure après les autres comment on saura que moi aussi j'ai pleuré ?
~ Alain Mabanckou
Never at my best when at my best behaviour.
~ Alan Bennett
The closest she got to pretence was politeness.
~ Alan Bennett
Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.
~ Alan Cohen
Honesty: When your outer expression matches your inner belief. Truth: When your inner belief matches reality.
~ Alan Cohen
Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind of love? I wanted to follow them, to touch them, to tell them of my happiness. I wanted to whisper to them: 'This is it. This is it'.
~ Alan Lightman
Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, sometimes the second the first.... Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or future, each kiss becomes a kiss of immediacy.
~ Alan Lightman
Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.
~ Alan Moore
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
~ Alan Moore
The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.
~ Derek Landy
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
~ DESCARTES
Long as you say what people want to hear; you're a real one, but when you start speaking truth, they turn fake real quick. -MillYentei_D.Y.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Humility is truth.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Juno: Honest to blog?
~ Diablo Cody
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
~ Diana Wynne Jones