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Quotes About Sincerity

Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it.
~ Markus Zusak
Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.
~ Markus Zusak
Her fingertips are made of love. When she speaks, her voice is made of love.
~ Markus Zusak
It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it.
~ Markus Zusak
In tutta sincerità, mi sforzo di prendere la faccenda allegramente, anche se, a dispetto delle mie proteste, la maggior parte delle persone trova difficile credermi. Per favore, fidati di me. Posso davvero essere allegra. Posso essere amabile. Affettuosa. Affabile. E queste sono solo le parole che cominciano per A. Non chiedermi però di essere bella: essere bella non è da me.
~ Markus Zusak
The sun was looking down on this, but not quite sincerely.
~ Martin Amis
Martin Luther King Jr.
~ A lie cannot live.
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
and believe me to be, my dear fellow, Very sincerely yours, Sherlock Holmes
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Honesty and Poetry are the same thing
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No good can ever come of falsehood
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
~ Arthur Miller
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
~ Arthur Miller
Authenticity soothes the soul.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Do mesmo modo que o papel-moeda circula no lugar da prata, também no mundo, no lugar da estima verdadeira e da amizade autêntica, circulam as suas demonstrações exteriores e os seus gestos imitados do modo mais natural possível. Por outro lado, poder-se-ia perguntar se há pessoas que de facto merecem essa estima e essa amizade. Em todo o caso, dou mais valor aos abanos de cauda de um cão leal do que a cem daquelas demonstrações e gestos.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said.
~ Atul Gawande
Again, none of this should be taken to mean that people are faking it.
~ Atul Gawande
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.
~ Augusten Burroughs
God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.
~ Augusten Burroughs