Quotes About Sincerity

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don't depend on me too much. I mean that. I'm not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the last moment and you're in danger or distress—don't think of me. I will fail you. That I promise from my heart with absolute sincerity." - Lightsong

A man who speaks his mind is a man with mind to speak of.

How much of what you've done was about love, and how much was about proving something?

A child's instincts are often the most honest.

It is difficult not to question your value to someone who seems to value nothing. Sincerity might not come easily for you, but when she finds it in you, she'll value it even more for the scarcity.

I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a place for them inside, you see.

Well, I like sincere people," Shallan said, raising her cup. "It's delightful how surprised they look when you push them down the stairs.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

She didn't open up to me until I gave her my honest face." "Your honest face doesn't have to be that of a killer, Dalinar." Dalinar and Navani

Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully an do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven't the patience for a simperer.

I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

when I'm prioritizing being liked over being free, I was much sweeter but less authentic. Now I'm kinder and less judgmental. But also firmer and more solid. Occasionally salty.

Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.

Staying real" is one of the most courageous battles that we'll ever fight.

bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus, Yale University (From his book, On Bullshit)

I'm not here so my business self can talk to their business selves. I'm here to talk from my heart to their hearts.

To me, this quality of being who you are regardless of who you are with seems to be the very essence of authenticity—the result of being natural, sincere, spontaneous, open and genuine.

It's helpful to think of lying as a defiance of the truth and bullshitting as a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is more synonymous with being heroic.

I'm not here so my business self can talk to their business selves. I'm here to talk from my heart to their hearts. This is who I am.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.