Quotes About Sincerity

Nature admits no lie.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

What we call pure or impure, is not with her the final question. Not how much chaff is in you; but whether you have any wheat. Pure? I might say to many a man: Yes, you are pure; pure enough; but you are chaff,—insincere hypothesis, hearsay, formality; you never were in contact with the great heart of the Universe at all; you are properly neither pure nor impure; you are nothing, Nature has no business with you.

I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true, tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.

The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

We all put on faces, as Walter White does. We put on faces when we meet our friends, when we meet new people, when we present ourselves in interviews. We try to be who the people we meet want us to be, or who we want to truly be.

I'm actually a really nice guy with a really big heart.

I do play nice guys. I really do.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he's one of the nicest guys I've played with. He says it how it is. He's not a guy that beats around the bush. If he's not happy, he says what he feels.