Sincerity Quotes
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If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.
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Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
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Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
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For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
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So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way.
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
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When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.
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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
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I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
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The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.
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You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
