Quotes About Sincerity

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

I've never tried to be what I'm not. I am what I am: raggedy, over-the-top, heartfelt, emotional, reflective, passionate, angry and sad at times.

While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.

Don't get me wrong, we're not the fucking Partridge family or anything. We don't all go on picnics and hold hands.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others – qualities which are within easy reach of every soul – are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?" I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.

It was as though they had so saturated themselves with professional behaviourism that they had lost the knack of being natural.

It's a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

I've made bad records but I've never made a dishonest record, let's put it that way.

Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.

Her smile was warm, her hand pressure brief but sincere, and her makeup flawless.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

Though he knows he cannot win, the reactionary has no desire to lie.

Die Wahrheit des Menschen ist nichts weiter als eine aufrichtige Überzeugung. Wahrheit ist, was wir als Wahrheit beurteilen, nachdem wir die Gründe erwogen, die Argumente bedacht und unsere Überzeugung auf das breiteste Fundament der Aufrichtigkeit und Ehrlichkeit gestellt haben. Die Wahrheit ist eine Tugend - wie die Blüte, die manchen harten und knorrigen moralischen Wurzeln entstammt. Vielleicht sollte man in der Logik lediglich ein Kapitel der Ethik sehen.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are