Quotes About Sincerity

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Quién te ha dicho que no puede haber amor verdadero, fiel y eterno en el mundo, que no existe? ¡Que le corten la lengua repugnante a ese mentiroso!

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think... The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow.

In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways I'm worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful - I don't know but - anyway - we've been friends... - And being friends is telling each other the truth...

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

My heart, as you well know, Bright Eyes, has always been yours for the asking. Or the staking.

Either you believed in something or you didn't—you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.

even a friendly smile shows the teeth behind!

Honesty is never wrong.

But sometimes, with people who matter, you have to reveal even the worst of what you believe yourself to be. You have to have faith that it won't make a difference. I would never judge you for how you look. Who you are is what matters, and who you are is always buried deep inside.

But words spoken can never be taken back. They can only be measured for and judged on the strength of their sincerity and need.

The nearest one could approach to truth was to cultivate a suitably ironic sense of one's own phoniness.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.

I love you, Kahlan. Never anyone before you, nor ever after. Only you." His eyes said it even better.

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

The truth has value.

That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.