Sincerity Quotes - Page 14

• With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

  Ramakrishna

  Realizing, Earnestness

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Punishment, Voice, Valleys

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

  Christian Dior

  Creativity, Often Can, Revolution

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• That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Heartfelt, Awful, Way

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Government, Interesting

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.61, Random House

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• When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Successful, Doubt

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• Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Doubt, Age

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• Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Kindness

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• Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Age, Needs

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• The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

  Barbara Mertz

  Husband, Heart, Moral

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• Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Names, People

  "The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

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• To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Pain, Thinking, Done

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• It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Atheist, Compassion, What Matters

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• Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

  Douglas Coupland

  Age, Certain, Feels

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Voice, Effort, Feelings

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• It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

  William Goldman

  Flames, Squad, Giants

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  Barbara Holland

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sincere

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

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• Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.

  Debra Monroe

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Cutting, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  War, Thinking, Down And

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Authenticity seems like sort of a joke. Actually I believe it was the late comedian George Burns who said, "if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made." People cannot be invariant across situations and roles and, moreover, leaders need to be true not to themselves, but to what others want, need, and expect from them.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Believe, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

  Moshe Kasher

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, League, Drug

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