Sincerity Quotes - Page 4

• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Self, Order

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• So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Weakness, Sides, Remember

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

  Mencius

  Self, Delight, Examination

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.345

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• When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

  Mark Fuhrman

  Failing, Offers

  Mark Fuhrman (2014). “Murder in Brentwood”, p.94, Regnery Publishing

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• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Enough

  "Heretics". Book by G. K. Chesterton, chapter V: "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants", 1905.

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• Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Calculating

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.29

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• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

  James Anthony Froude

  Evil, Deceit, World

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.343

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• A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

  George Santayana

  Freedom, Men, Judging

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, p.162, MIT Press

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• The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

  Emily Carr

  Religious, Artist, Thinking

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Witty, Stupid

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

  David Lloyd George

  Confidence

  Speech at Aberystwyth, August 3, 1928.

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Kindness, Practice

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• Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

  Owen Feltham

  Crush, Fall, Broken

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• The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Firsts, Misery, Makers

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.339

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  Xunzi

  Ease, Foresight, Ifs

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Baseball, Honesty

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

  'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

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• Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

  Terry Waite

  Together, Exit, Pieces

  1986 Interviewed on ABC news, 3 Nov.

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• If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Kindness, Home

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• If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Eye, Roots, Giving

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• Sincerity is always subject to proof.

  John F. Kennedy

  Proof, Subjects

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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