Quotes About Sincerity

every act which has no heart will be found out in the end. Every gesture.

Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.

love God and do as you please.

if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.

A lesson I learned from Bill, a lesson that perhaps should be obvious, though there's evidence that most other people don't know it, either, is that direct and sincere compliments are shockingly effective—that they feel wonderful. What in theory should sound saccharine or manipulative rarely does in practice, so long as you believe the other person really means it. And we crave praise not, I think, because most of us are egomaniacal. It's because we're human.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [ The New Statesman , February 25, 1933]

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked to appeal to him. It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

There was about him a candour, and gentleness, which made the women trust him. He understood.

BE STILL WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY; WHEN GENUINE PASSION MOVES YOU, SAY WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO SAY, AND SAY IT HOT.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

Give honest and sincere appreciation.

Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what really matters. Flattery is usually an admittance of insensibility, a betrayal of trust. We say things we think we should say, but in reality we aren't thinking at all. What message does flattery send? "You don't matter enough for me to pay you much mind.

General Obregon's philosophy: "Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

A man usually has two reasons for doing a thing: the one that sounds good and the real one.

Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word but, which signals that the criticism is about to begin. This may make the listener questions the sincerity of the praise. Use and instead, and provide constructive advice rather than criticism. this is possibly the most effective ways to address an issue in written form without seeming false in your praise.

King George V had a set of six maxims displayed on the walls of his study at Buckingham Palace. One of these maxims said: 'Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praise.