Sincerity Quotes
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Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.
Adolf Hitler
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
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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.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Sincerity is the way of heaven.
Confucius
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Don’t come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There’s nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, “Wow, that’s a neat insight!” You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn’t try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He’s looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.
Bob Sorge
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
Lao Tzu
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Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
Confucius
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
Confucius
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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.
Zoë Heller
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If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond
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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
Confucius
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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.
Brad Warner
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
Confucius
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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.
Stéphane Paut
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To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
David James
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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
Immanuel Kant
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He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.
John Tillotson