Quotes About Sincerity

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am.

Quería preguntártelo algún día, cuando fuera el momento adecuado, pero hemos comenzado a hablar…[…]—La miró a los ojos mientras le acariciaba la mejilla con los nudillos—. Estoy ante ti sin nada, bella, solo te entrego a mí mismo y mis sentimientos.

I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am." "Oh, Jack." She smiled, raised her glass. "It's working. Cheers.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

I've never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get the chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them.

Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn't read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Ter calma e uma alma forte, limpa e sincera, assim tudo sairá bem. Não sentir-se só nem débil, porque detrás de cada pessoa há exércitos poderosos que não podemos conceber nem sequer sonhar. Quando se eleva o pensamento, não há mal que possa alcançar. O único inimigo que se deve temer é a nós mesmos.

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

The issue for me, both as a writer and as a spiritual seeker, is courage—the courage to be there myself, and the courage to allow the reader to be there—to see, to touch, to taste, to smell,

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Yes, sir," she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man's word didn't count for much in this modern day.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

Heartfelt conviction is not, alas, a guarantee of moral decency.

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.