Quotes About Sincerity

You knew instantly that this was a man who always told the truth as he saw it, whether it was popular or not, who had a set of rules to guide his life and no other rules mattered. He

She said things that'd have sounded like cliches--but when they're said by the woman you love in the middle of the night, it's different. I said things that sounded like cowboy-movie junk, even when they were coming out of my mouth. But I meant them.

I'd rather be dead than cool.

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

The worst crime is faking it

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not' Could be a summary of my book, 'Guilt Trip

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Prayer is not a place to be good, it is a place to be honest. Prayer is not a place to perform, it is a place to be present. Prayer is not a place to be right, it is a place to be known. Prayer is not a place to prove your worth, it is a place to receive worth and offer yourself in truth.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

You speak sincerely, but your sorrow has no cause. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There has never been a time when you and I … have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

Courage is a value contracted for two types of emotions; love and hate, so all actions carried out by these are also the most sincere.

He turned the haggered, haunted face on her and said, "I want you to stop it." "Whatever you're doing....to try to make me like Pilar, it has to stop. Because it's not fair to her. She's upset right now because I'm acting crazy. But I don't want to be with her. It's you I love. And if you want to get rid of me, then tell me, but don't try to foist me off on somebody else.

Listen to me," he said, and to her dismay he stepped closer. "When I first met you," he said, "I had no idea you were one of us. How could I? But I knew that you were different than that phony friend of yours. Not just another pretty girl, but somebody special.

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearance of piety and honor, they are always to be seen through these veils.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.