Quotes About Sincerity

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

Life is real, and you canot live a lie.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Li há pouco dois velhos versos de Yeats que me pareceram verdadeiros, na medida relativa em que qualquer afirmação o pode ser: "Falta aos melhores toda a convicção, enquanto os piores estão cheios de uma intensidade apaixonada.