Quotes About Sincerity

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.

love and honesty are the path to redemption and fulfillment, anything else leads ultimately to tragedy.

The secret of life is sincerity and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

You can count on your enemies," said Emilia now, "but sometimes it's the one who smiles who keeps you up at night." There

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

For a man with no cows you talk a lot of bullshit, Ryan.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.

Casualness is the enemy of pretense.

But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he absolutely was certain of Trump's sincerity when he said they'd be friends for life—only never to basically hear from him again or have his calls returned.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations." —Abraham Lincoln

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.