Sincerity Quotes
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.
When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.
I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.
I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.
In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.
Your words must match what you do. In so many words, you need to show sincerity with your words.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.
I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.
According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.
Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.