Quotes and Sayings about Sincerity
"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."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Heart, Hollywood, Sincerity)
"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."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Government, Sincerity)
"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."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Faith, Honesty, Authority, May, Questions, Respect, Sincerity)
"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."
- Lionel Barrymore
(Related: Age, Movies, Insincerity, Misfortune)
"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Faith, Work, Importance, Sincerity)
"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."
- Vicki Baum
(Related: Art, Marriage, Insincerity, Understanding)
"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Enthusiasm, Insincerity)
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Progress, Religious, Sincerity)
"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Life, Music, Honesty, Country, Country music, Sincerity)
"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Genius, Truth, Enthusiasm, Sincerity)
"Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile."
- George Byron
(Related: May, Sincerity)
"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Death, Men, Arguments, Seriousness, Sincerity)
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Friendship, Truth, Nothing, Passion, Sincerity, Taste)
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Merit, Novelty, Originality, Sincerity)
"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Religion, Artist, May, Religious, Sincerity)
"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Modesty, Sincerity)
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
- Confucius
(Related: Soul, Virtue, Circumstances, Generosity, Gravity, Kindness, Practice, Sincerity)
"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."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Truth, Enemies, Friends, Promise, Sincerity)
"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Money)
"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."
- George Eliot
(Related: Belief, Sincerity, Theories)
"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."
- Jean Henri Fabre
(Related: Absence, Appearance, Feeling, Ignorance, Learning, Merit, Sincerity)
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Sincerity)
"The secret of success is sincerity."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Success, Sincerity)
"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Art, Sincerity, Song)
"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."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Sincerity)
"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."
- Robert Hall
(Related: Friend, Virtue, Opinion, Sincerity, Understanding, Value)
"That's what show business is, sincere insincerity."
- Benny Hill
(Related: Business, Insincerity)
"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."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Achievement, American, Indifference, Party, Republican, Respect, Sincerity, Want)
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Funny, Life, Commitment, Sincerity, Wounds)
"We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country."
- Hu Jintao
(Related: Country, Effort, Sincerity, Will)
"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."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Experience, Children, Job, Sincerity, Years)
"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."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Children, Mankind, Motives, Religious, Sincerity)
"Sincerity is moral truth."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Truth, Sincerity)
"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Sincerity)
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Independence, Originality, Rebellion, Sincerity)
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Strength, Error, Insincerity, Weakness)
"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Character, Being, Sincerity)
"I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours."
- John McCain
(Related: Doubt, Friends, Sincerity)
"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
- Hattie McDaniel
(Related: Hollywood, Sincerity, Will, World)
"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."
- Hattie McDaniel
(Related: Friends, Hollywood, Respect, Sincerity)
"I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Sincerity)
"Sincerity is the way to heaven."
- Mencius
(Related: Heaven, Sincerity)
"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
- Mencius
(Related: Delight, Self, Sincerity)
"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."
- Sarojini Naidu
(Related: Action, Courage, Motive, Sincerity, Speech, Want)
"Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting."
- Alla Nazimova
(Related: Art, Acting, Sincerity, Voice)
"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
- Peggy Noonan
(Related: Politics, Competence, Sincerity)
"The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity."
- George Oppen
(Related: Poetry, Time, Honesty, First, Question, Sincerity)
"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."
- George Orwell
(Related: Enemy, Insincerity, Language, Words)
"For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."
- George Orwell
(Related: Possession, Sincerity, Writer)
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Sincerity, Value, Worth)
"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."
- Donna Rice
(Related: Time, Ending, Intention, May, Sincerity)
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Desire, Faults, Mind, Sincerity, Talking)
"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."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Truth, Distrust, Sincerity)
"My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
- Edmond Rostand
(Related: Pessimism, Sincerity)
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Pessimism, Sincerity)
"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."
- Dorothy Sarnoff
(Related: Time, Eye, Eyes, Sincerity)
"Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made."
- Daniel Schorr
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
- Erwin Schrodinger
(Related: Truth, Scientists, Sincerity)
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Money, Friend, Dependence, Insincerity)
"The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened."
- Thaksin Shinawatra
(Related: Government, First, Sincerity)
"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."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Wisdom, Peace, Cooperation, Goodwill, Leaders, Sincerity, Stability, Understanding)
"Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Intention, Sincerity)
"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Sincerity, Value)
"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."
- Erich von Stroheim
(Related: Rumors, Self, Sincerity)
"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."
- Henry Benedict Stuart
(Related: Father, Feelings, Cause, Help, Justice, Sincerity, Support)
"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."
- Tacitus
(Related: Truth, Fear, Habit, Cause, Freedom, Sincerity, Wonder)
"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."
- John Tillotson
(Related: Men, End, Journey, Man, Road, Sincerity, Traveling)
"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."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Love, Society, Economy, Sincerity, Spiritual, Trade)
"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."
- Terry Waite
(Related: Dignity, Sincerity)
"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique."
- Edmund White
(Related: Realism, Sincerity)
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Sincerity)
"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."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Trust, Criticism, Now, Presidency, Question, Sincerity, Will)
"If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity."
- Xun Zi
(Related: Knowledge, Deep, Foresight, Sincerity)