Quotes About Sincerity

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

My life is pretty much an open book.

Faith to me it's believe without seeing, it's how you live your life, how you are authentic.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.