Sincerity Quotes

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

Catherynne M. Valente

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Haruki Murakami

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 al-Mubarak

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Don Williams, Jr

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

Criss Jami

Be sincere in your thoughts,Be pure in your feelings.You will not have to run after happiness.Happiness will run after you.

Sri Chinmoy

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Criss Jami

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Albert Camus

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Sallust

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

William James

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Samuel Johnson

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan