Quotes with sincerity

  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
  • The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
  • Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
  • Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
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  • Douglas Adams To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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  • George Santayana 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
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Confucius Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Orwell For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Terry Waite 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.
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  • Albert Camus How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Malcolm X I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Albert Camus Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jean Rostand My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Peggy Noonan Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Confucius Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • James Russell Lowell Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • John Tillotson Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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