Quotes About Sincerity

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.

I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.

There is little I can expound on when the truth is spoken.

Anyone who ever had a heart, He wouldn?t turn around and break it. Anyone who ever played a part, he wouldn?t turn around and fake it. Sweet Jane

On ne sait pas ce qu'il faut faire pour se faire aimer: se montrer comme on est ou mentir. On balance entre les deux. On fait les deux d'ailleurs, au hasard un peu. On se fait comme on voudrait être, comme on croit qu'il faudrait paraître et puis on se dit "Ce n'est pas moi..." On cherche à se montrer à se montrer... à son pire... à déplaire...Qui sait si ce n'est pas le moyen de plaire?

Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

He calls sinners in good faith, earnestly desires that they accept the invitation, and in all sincerity promises eternal life to those who repent and believe.

dat een mensch meestal beter is, dieper denkt, edeler voelt dan hij schijnen laat in de iederen-daagsche banaliteit van het leven, die hem dwingt zich te bemoeien met nietsjes en woorden, ieder ogenblik.