Sincere Quotes - Page 14

• I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Simple, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Knowledge, Biographies

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have a dream. Believe it. Work on it. Have faith in your heart and feel it explode within you. Be sincere about your dream. Mean what you say and do what you dream.

  Rita Zahara

  Motivational, Dream, Believe

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• There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Way, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

  Moliere

  Honesty, Heart, Men

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• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Afterlife, Order

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Humble, Humility

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• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Government, Criticism, Progress

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• Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.

  Robert Gordis

  Lying, Mean, Humility

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• [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

  Kevin Spacey

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Real, Humility

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• Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don't reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He's been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you'll find. Walk and you'll arrive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Sweet, Reading, Heart

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• Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

  Reba McEntire

  Larger Than Life, Taught, Emotion

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they were also experimenting with form. There was a sense of trying to be as sincere as possible, whether you were investigating something far away from you or very close.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, Passion, Practice

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Turkeys, Giving

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Prime, Ministers

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, People

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

  Girl Talk

  Interesting, Ironic, Want

  Source: uproxx.com

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• You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

  Robert Bly

  Islands, Long, Looks

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I think Dona;d Trump is sincere in wanting to be a successful president and moving this country forward and I don't think any president ever comes in saying to himself "I want to figure out how to make people angry or alienate half the country."

  Barack Obama

  Country, Moving, Successful

  Source: time.com

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• Hillary Clinton truly is sincere, but she has to connect more with the American people in terms of what she believes in and how she intends to accomplish progress in their lives.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, People, Progress

  Source: www.politico.com

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