Quotes About Sincerity

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

There was a sense of gravity and richness to his teaching because you knew he really believed what he was saying.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

Uno sciocco dignitoso, Demelza, non ottiene niente, mentre il farabutto dai toni melliflui sì.

And gentlefolk never laugh at simplicity; they only laugh at pretence.

The only guide to a man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am sincere or insincere? What does this have to do with whether or not my thoughts are right? I can utter a soaring truth insincerely and say the stupidest thing sincerely. Learn to judge the thought independently of who says it or how.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

His ways were a refuge from falsity.

All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.

All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.

If you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not because they will either believe you to be abundant or recognize your pretense and consider you to be unworthy.

But before I invite you into my society and friendship I will be open and sincere with you, and must lay down this as an established truth, that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour. The

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

When love is true, it enters the bones…