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• Sincerity is technique.

  W. H. Auden

  Technique, Crafts

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• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Heart, Character

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• When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

  Laozi

  Love, Heart, People

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• How many people do you know believe they're going to heaven because, they're not trusting so much in Christ as they are the sincerity of the decision they made a long time ago?

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Long, People

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• We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Believe, Men

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• I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

  Adolf Hitler

  Judging, Grace, Atheism

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 5 - "The World War", 1925.

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• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

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• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Self

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

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• How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. ... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. ... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it.

  Peter Selgin

  Writing, Practice, Roots

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• Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Cheer, Journey

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• The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting.  This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.  She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Philosophy, Humility

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.19, Bethany House

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• Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Honesty

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• This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Book, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Passion, Should Have

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• It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

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• In a way, it's a great thing that I have the opportunity to stand at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Indianapolis, and stay right here, ... People say that reality is in the footsteps, and not the words. That, as much as anybody, gives you a chance to show your sincerity and commitment, and what you're all about as far as leaving a legacy.

  Jim Irsay

  Commitment, Opportunity, Reality

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• I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Integrity, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98

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• If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Giving, Speech, Way

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• The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Filipino, Offers

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• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is
  mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them.
  Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their
  neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere
  and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified
  in pursuing them and warring against them.

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali

  Attitude, Heart, Fighting

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2004). “The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran”, Amana Pubns

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• I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

  Jerry Falwell

  Kings, Rights, Wings

  "Ministers and Marches". Jerry Falwell's sermon in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965.

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• For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

  Henri Matisse

  Influence, Cowardice, Avoided

  Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

  John Henry Newman

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  John Henry Newman (1865). “History of My Religious Opinions”, p.118

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