Top 56 Never Be Sincere Quotes
#1. Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
Gordon Lish
#2. I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
Karolyn Grimes
#3. Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
#4. True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#5. Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
John Dryden
#8. Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#9. You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Zig Ziglar
#10. Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.
Colley Cibber
#11. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#12. I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
Jimmy Carter
#13. I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was sincere; if it was in bad taste, it was on the side of life.
Henry Miller
#14. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#16. Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply
sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your
indifference.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#17. Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.
Jack Abbott
#18. Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.
Mort Sahl
#19. Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#20. How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt.
Nouman Ali Khan
#21. With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#22. Not until you're bind together with a more pure and sincere relationship, the love you feel to each other will never become something tangible - Sarah
Diyar Harraz
#23. I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
John Lasseter
#24. Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
William Osler
#26. I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.
Tim Gunn
#27. An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.
Criss Jami
#28. You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.
Larry McMurtry
#29. It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
George Eliot
#30. Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?
James Joyce
#31. Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.
Gustav Hasford
#32. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#33. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps
#34. I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.
Fisher Amelie
#36. Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
#37. Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love ...
Thomas A Kempis
#38. Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
Richard L. Evans
#39. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle.
#40. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
Dale Carnegie
#41. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.
Everett Ruess
#42. Petty unselfishness," she repeated. "I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learnt to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.
E. M. Forster
#43. With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Tom Glazer
#44. Remember that a sincere apology never diminishes the apologizer.
David Mitchell
#45. Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.
Justin Alcala
#46. There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#47. Though always frank, the novelist was never wholly sincere.
Julian Barnes
#48. John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Jerry Saltz
#49. Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us ... He is our most sincere and faithful
friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#50. The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated
Ibn Taymiyyah
#51. Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.
Emile Gaboriau
#52. Thank you Robin Williams for showing the world that one man can make a difference in the lives of millions, while still fighting his own personal demons. You are missed, but never forgotten.
Steven Wolff
#53. You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
Marya Mannes
#55. A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#56. If you convey God's words to someone only with the intention to utilize him in some way, you will never be able to establish the standard of the "Way." Give what you have to others with your sincere heart.
Sun Myung Moon
