Sincerity Quotes - Page 23

• People trust me. I sell sincerity.

  George Foreman

  People, Trust Me, Sells

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• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Lakes, Effort

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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• I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Divine Guidance

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Weight, Clean

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• Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Integrity, Successful, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.147, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Soul, Faults

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Reality, Appearance

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.27, Gideon House Books

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• A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it. What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God, attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Reality, Oneness

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• The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

  Emily Post

  Simplicity, Serenity, Four

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• Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Men, Political

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

  Tryon Edwards

  Believe, Medicine, Poison

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• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  William Wycherley

  Doe, Ceremony, Suspects

  Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”

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• If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Expression

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• There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fighting, Cities, People

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• I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, House Of Cards, Iron

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.171, Random House

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• I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Regret, Ambition, Done

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Depth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

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• Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

  Mason Cooley

  Difficult

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• Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Soul, Spirit, Artistic

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• Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Moving, Bird

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• The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Christian, Rome

  "The Problem" l. 19 (1847)

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• How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Order, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, And Love, Judgment

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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