Sincerity Quotes

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Every man alone is sincere.At the entrance of a second person,hypocrisy begins.We parry and fend the approachof our fellow-man by compliments,by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.We cover up our thought from himunder a hundred folds.

Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.