Quotes About Sincerity

Chapter 5: What Our Bodies Are Really Saying Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. If you're going to talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Do you see a pattern here?

That also goes to being honest with yourself and your emotions.

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

Everything he said seemed complimentary, somehow, although he wasn't gallant in the artificial sense. But plainly he liked her, and she liked him.

I had no idea why I was saying this. It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weaknesses.

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.

Simpler, Peter, simpler, more direct, as honest as you can make of a dishonest thing.

It is not my function," said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public. I give them what they really like.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth

And I would shrug and play the question off, unable to confess that I could no longer distinguish between faith and mere folly, between faith and simple endurance; that while I believed in the sincerity I heard in their voices, I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won.

Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.

honesty, and hard work, and empathy

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa's every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as "tact" would get shot down with "Mom, that's lying!" And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, "Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don't really like it.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

Between her hand over my heart and her hips at my crotch, she might as well have been administering a polygraph.

George Burns line? 'Sincerity—if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The way she had offered to try to help Harry, who had been not just an asset of mine, but a rare friend, an offer that had been as sincere as it was ultimately useless.

but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words.