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Quotes About Sincerity

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.
~ Lewis Carroll
For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.
~ Lewis Carroll
Tu intención debía ser mala; si no, lo habrías firmado, como cualquier persona honesta.
~ Lewis Carroll
Di siempre la verdad: piensa antes de hablar y escribe lo que digas después.
~ Lewis Carroll
He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.
~ Libba Bray
And sometimes I just don't want to sparkle.
~ Libba Bray
Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
~ Libba Bray
We take such pains to be polite. We never say what we mean. For all it matters, we could greet each other and speak only of cheese - How was your Limburger, miss? Salty as a ripe Stinking Bishop, thank you. Ah, very cheddar, miss. I'll have your Stilton brought to your Camembert, then. - and no one would likely notice.
~ Libba Bray
Don't tell anybody, but sometimes, I just don't want to sparkle.
~ Libba Bray
The most important quality in a friend is to be yourself. Unless you're not a very nice person. Then you should try to be somebody else.
~ Libba Bray
because that would be a lie. He was sorry they weren't spending the
~ Linda Lael Miller
den a lot of times myself," she confessed.
~ Linda Lael Miller
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
~ Linus Torvalds
It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.
~ Lionel Trilling
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In
~ Lisa Bevere
What's it going to take for you to trust me?" "You're an addict. You really have to ask that?
~ Lisa Gardner
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
~ Francis of Assisi
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.
~ Rumi
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
~ Sting
Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.
~ Caroline Myss
Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
~ Ibn Ata Allah