Quotes About Sincerity

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

Brothers and sisters, never hesitate to bear your testimony with sincerity and love. The power of personal testimony cannot be denied and often ignites in others the interest to know more.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

If the words have no heart, there is no heart.

He said the stadium was the only place you could express yourself openly. When a player scores, you can cheer, 'Hurray!' because you're happy, not because you're forced. You can't lie all the time!

Eu sei que vossa excelência preferia uma delicada mentira; mas eu não conheço nada mais delicado que a verdade.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

Henlein was motivated less by Nazi ideology than by the lure of power and fame. His skill as a politician stemmed from his gift for lying with apparent sincerity

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

How did a person know, he wondered, what was love and what was a facsimile of it? Did it matter? Was the thing that mattered most the action that one took - or failed to take - in the name of that feeling?

Hypocrites can be very pious

If spoken sincerely enough, and he now spoke most sincerely, lies became truths to the people hungry to hear them.

I never claimed to be good.

He smiled his easy smile, his honest one He smiled and his face was like the sun

Diceva ciò che pensava e restava stupito quando gli altri non facevano lo stesso. Qualcuno avrebbe potuto scambiare quel tratto per ingenuità. Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live The way it moves me!

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.

She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the afternoon, before we left the wood, and with a solemnity and sincerity, a complete dedication of herself that I cannot describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery...she said, Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you.

Just those three words, said and meant.I love you.