To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~By Confucius ~
Sincerity is moral truth.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
~By Garth Brooks ~
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
~By Alma Gluck ~
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~By Albert Camus ~
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
~By George Byron ~
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
~By Xun Zi ~
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
~By Thaksin Shinawatra ~
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
~By William Shenstone ~
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
~By Fred Allen ~
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.
~By Donna Rice ~
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
~By Zane Grey ~
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
~By George Orwell ~
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.
~By Terry Waite ~
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
~By Lionel Blue ~
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
~By Emily Carr ~
We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.
~By Hu Jintao ~
The secret of success is sincerity.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
~By Robert Hall ~
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
~By Daniel Schorr ~
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~By Mencius ~
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
~By Jean Rostand ~
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
~By George Eliot ~
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
~By Henry Benedict Stuart ~
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
~By Albert Camus ~
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
~By Benny Hill ~
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~By Douglas Adams ~
I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
~By George Orwell ~
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
~By Kate Smith ~
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
~By John McCain ~
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
~By Edmund White ~
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
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.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
~By Dorothy Sarnoff ~
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
~By Mencius ~
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
~By John Tillotson ~
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
~By George Oppen ~
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
~By Edmond Rostand ~
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
~By Alla Nazimova ~
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~By Vicki Baum ~
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
~By Tacitus ~
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