Sincere Quotes - Page 20

• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, People, Holocaust

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

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• It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Government, People

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.221, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

  David A. Bednar

  Prayer, Father, Answers

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• In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Sound

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• Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

  David A. Bednar

  Heart, Hands, Desire

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• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  Gaelen Foley

  Knowing, Wry Smile, Squares

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Serious Things, Triviality, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.23, Penguin

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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Caring, Practice

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• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

  Rebecca West

  Mean, Fire, Justice

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Liberty, Triumph, Minorities

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Heaven, Humanity

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, People

  "Bachmann boasts of having a 'titanium spine'". www.cnn.com. June 27, 2011.

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• With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

  Tom Glazer

  Grateful, Humility, Pride

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• A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the Prophet Joseph, possibly as a test, sternly rebuked Brigham Young for something he had done or something he was supposed to have done but hadn't - the detail is unclear. When Joseph finished the rebuke, everyone in the room waited for Brigham Young's response. This powerful man, later known as the Lion of the Lord, in a voice everyone could tell was sincere, said simply and humbly, "Joseph, what do you want me to do?"

  Truman G. Madsen

  Powerful, Humility, Men

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• Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Religious, Character, Opposites

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.56, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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• Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

  Christopher Columbus

  Hope, Honesty, Lying

  Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503.

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• Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.

  Malcolm X

  Home, White, America

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.383, Ballantine Books

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• The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, People, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Strong, Long

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• Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Deception, Born, Deceiver

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• In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

  Confucius

  Honorable, Ten

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• Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Three, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

  Confucius

  Honesty, Principles, Yoke

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• The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

  Aberjhani

  Strength, Soul, Crosses

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.63, Lulu.com

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