Quotes About Sincerity

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Even though the white-haired politician has no colorful wardrobe, after he speaks... you want to hug him. Why? Because what Bernie Sanders says feels like the truth. The unbridled truth. And he says it loud.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials are devoting efforts to tending the garden of virtues with all sincerity true to the Party's idea of attaching importance to young people, and highly appreciate them with a warm heart.

I take my 'Star Wars' quite seriously. There's humor in the movie, but as a fan I just wanted it to feel real.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe?

that whole oh I care so much bull. Just to make everybody like her.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Fake people tend to tell sweet lies

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dishonest men.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Sincerity is the LUXURY allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.