Quotes About Sincerity

I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. —JEROME, A.D. 324–420

Truth does not blush.

Churches become unsafe places if its leaders fail to be honest, transparent, and reliable. Sincerity may not be the final basis of truth, but there is no deep truth communicated where sincerity is lacking.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

There is no true life within a false life.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which thou hast, everything more or less cleaveth to thee. If thy love be pure, sincere, well-regulated, thou shalt not be in captivity to anything. Do not covet what thou mayest not have; do not have what is able to hinder thee, and to rob thee of inward liberty.

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.

Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?