Sincerity Quotes - Page 18

• A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strong, Art, Selfish

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Always Astonished: Selected Prose”, p.53, City Lights Books

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• When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Compassion, May

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• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

  Kathleen Norris

  Mean, Saying Yes, Cost

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• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Light, Physicians, Essentials

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• In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.

  C. I. Scofield

  Christian, Law, Giving

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• Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

  Corita Kent

  Inspirational, Earnestness

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• Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Errors, Fidelity

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Simplicity, Soul

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.532

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• My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Would Be, Panacea, Enjoyable

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

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• Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Truth, Fire, Flames

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”

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• All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Writing, Character

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• You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

  Susan Moody

  Insanity, Perception, Insane

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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  Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

  Marianne Moore

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

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• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  Kim Thayil

  Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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• To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Sincere, Persons

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• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Long, Looks

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• Sincerity? I can fake that.

  William J. Clinton

  Fake, I Can

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• Sincerity does not equal competence.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Doe, Equal, Competence

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• It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

  George D. Prentice

  Mistake, People, Wit

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• Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Change, Faith, Yoga

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Bores, Seriousness

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Betrayal, Weakness, Complaining

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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