Quotes About Sincerity

if I was truly committed to God, I also had to be fully committed to the truth.

lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.

When I say truth, I mean beauty.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.

You're smiling again," Regina said. "I was just thinking about how much I love you both," Arnie said. His father looked at him, surprised and touched; there was a soft gleam in his mother's eyes that might have been tears. They really believed it. The shitters. •

Authenticity is critical to building a relationship of trust. And that means you need to "declare your intent." Declaring your intent involves opening your agenda, giving the why behind the what. It is a great practice in using vulnerability to operationalize authenticity.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.

As Emerson once put it, "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other—while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity—then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do—even using so-called good human relations techniques—will be perceived as manipulative.

You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart.

Emerson once put it, "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

You can buy a person's hand, but you can not buy his heart.

Never compromise with honesty.

You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out.

we need to apologize and we need to do it sincerely. Great deposits come in the sincere words:

comedy has to tell the truth.

Sincerity: that's the hard part. If you can fake that, the rest is easy.

No matter how long he's known the woman or how casually they have met, if he's strongly attracted to her, he immediately starts thinking of marriage. Frightened by even the thought, he ends it, right there. A man such as this may know that he can't make a permanent commitment, and be really sincere about not wanting to use or mislead a woman by allowing a relationship to develop further.

Human beings aren't the most candid animals on the planet. We'll often say one thing and do another—or, more precisely, we'll say what we think other people want to hear and then, in private, do what we want.

cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.

what is genuine emotion and what is business strategy. The modern condition.