Sincerity Quotes

• 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

  Sports, Spiritual, And Love

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Persons, Values

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• Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pay, Complement, Highest

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• Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Guarantees

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• There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

  Cecil Parker

  Women, Lying

  "Fictional character: Alfred Munson". "Indiscreet", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Winning, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 62, 1678.

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• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  Confucius

  Truth, Human Nature, Virtue

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• 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

  Journey, Men, Way

  John Tillotson (1717). “Works”, p.10

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• Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

  John Wooden

  May, Helping

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• To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Life Is, Sincere

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Believe

  Letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  George Henry Lewes

  Uprising, Independence, Originality

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, Excellence

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• Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

  John Tillotson

  Thinking, Promise, Speak

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• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Heart, Blessing

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• I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Way, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.42

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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• Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Flower, Modesty, Spontaneous

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• A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Addresses, Silent, Genuine

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

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• Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Sincere, Vow

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring.

  Unknown

  Prayer, Spring, Adventure

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• Sincerity is the way to heaven.

  Mencius

  Reality, Heaven, Way

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