Quotes About Sincerity

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.