Quotes About Sincerity

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

There's nothing unpatriotic about the truth," muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful has no need of.

A good liar lies as little as possible.

The thing I'm hung up on is the idea of seeing something real. I don't think most people feel half the things they pretend to feel.

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.

I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

I've taken the liberty of giving us a full moon. I've arranged for all stoplights to stay green. I've made some phone calls to make sure you keep smiling. I've reserved the space underneath our feet. I've gone all out for you, so why don't you go with me?

Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.

It made her chest hurt, how much she felt in this moment. She knew she should not say anything impetuously. But under the light of the stained glass window, the flickering candlelight of their shared memories, it felt like simple unexamined honesty. No matter what the darkness brought back to her tomorrow. "I'm in love with you.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.