Quotes About Sincerity

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If any good results to a man from believing a lie, it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

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