Quotes About Sincerity

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity;Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew—The conscious stone to beauty grew.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

Now I get why I'm incapable of Flirting for I can't Lie!

The best part of life is when you are 'YOU' without any mental or psychological make-up.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Everything a person does is manipulative, isn't it? Every kiss, every handshake, every kind or harsh word. It's what we do, who we are. Some of us are better at it or more obvious or more deceitful than others. But we all do it.

You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting. If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt I the wound.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.