Quotes About Sincerity

Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!

Então levado do remorso, usei ainda uma vez do meu velho meio das promessas espirituais e pedi que me perdoasse e salvasse a vida de minha mãe, e eu lhe rezaria dois mil padre-nossos. [...] Eram mais dois mil; aonde iam os antigos? Não paguei uns nem outros, mas saindo de almas cândidas e verdadeiras tais promessas são como a moeda fiduciária - ainda que o vendedor as não pague, valem a soma que dizem.

Melchior foi o primeiro que voltou a si. A reflexão corrigiu a espontaneidade, e o padre reassumiu o gesto usual, com essa dissimulação que é um dever, quando a sinceridade é um perigo.

You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.

Was Louis mean? He had always seemed the very spirit of generosity. When he had hardly sixpence left he would spend the coins he had on a bunch of violets. She couldn't bear to think of Louis as mean. Anything else but that.

Be who you seem to be.

Transparency is the idea that people's behavior and demeanor—the way they represent themselves on the outside—provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.

We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest.

I never had any great desire to be well-known or to sell a lot of books. … Maybe that's paradoxically one of the reasons why I've done well. People sense that I'm doing things out of pure enjoyment. I'm not pandering to an audience or following a formula. I'm just writing about cool stuff that interests me, and people respond to that.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person's success, or be that person.

There is no secret ingredient

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete.

Never start your gratitude moment with an unthankful heart or out of necessity. Gratitude must be sincere.

Be you. It's life's best offer to others.

Your words say it to me... Your actions tell it to me.

When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.