quotations about sincerity
Now there's two ways we can do this, keep it real or front.
MARY J. BLIGE
"Sincerity"
One who is very variable cannot be very sincere; today's truth is tomorrow's falsehood.
MADAME SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
LORD BYRON
letter, May 29, 1823
Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellent instrument for the speedy dispatch of business; it creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words; it is like traveling in a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's ends than bye-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
JOHN TILLOTSON
The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
DANIEL SCHORR
International Herald Tribune, May 18, 1992
A habit of sincerity in acknowledging faults is a guard against committing them.
GOOLD BROWN
The First Lines of English Grammar: Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's Larger Work
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
The tongue of the sincere is rooted in his heart; hypocrisy and deceit have no place in his words.
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Human Life
Sincerity's the best gimmick. Remember that.
THE LEMONHEADS
"Die Right Now"
Frank sincerity is a quality much extolled among men and pleasing to every one, while simulation, on the contrary, is detested and condemned. Yet for a man's self, simulation is of the two by far the more useful; sincerity tending rather to the interest of others. But since it cannot be denied that it is not a fine thing to deceive, I would commend him whose conduct is as a rule open and straightforward, and who uses simulation only in matters of the gravest importance and such as very seldom occur; for in this way he will gain a name for honesty and sincerity, and with it the advantages attaching to these qualities. At the same time, when, in any extreme emergency, he resorts to simulation, he will draw all the greater advantage from it, because from his reputation for plain dealing his artifice will blind men more.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI
Counsels and Reflections
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sartor Resartus
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
attributed, Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson
As her technique became sounder, sincerity became less necessary.
THORNTON WILDER
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
Sincerity increases willingness to care.
TOBA BETA
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
In a world of fakery
Your touch of sincerity
I have come to depend upon
THE TURTLES
"Is It Any Wonder?"
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS
Socrates Cafe
Sincerity is the only thing that makes good schlock watchable.
DAN WICKLINE
"Is Marvel's Inhumans The Train Wreck It Appears To Be In The Media?", Bleeding Cool, August 7, 2017
Where there is the greatest sincerity, there is the greatest humility; and where the least truth, there is the greatest pride.
ASEN NICHOLSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sincerity and honesty carries one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through; for nothing doth a man more real mischief in the world than to be suspected of too much craft; because every one stands upon his guard against him, and suspects plots and designs where there are none intended; insomuch that though he speaks with all the sincerity that is possible, yet nothing he saith can be believed.
EDWARD STILLINGFLEET
Fifty Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions