Quotes About Sincerity

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

I lead with my heart all the time.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces Our Lord gave me then! Yes, I believe my conversion at that time was sincere and perfect.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

I was thinking and feeling was true, no matter how much I had to tell lies everywhere else.

la possibilité de jeter le masque en toutes choses est l'un des rares avantages que je trouve à vieillir

Toda mujer que ama es una pobre inocente.

On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck)

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart-- all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best.

Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.

I'm going to be me, whether it's good or bad

genuinely is

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.