Quotes About Sincerity And Honesty

#1. Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

#2. The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

Dalai Lama

#3. I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

Rohit Shetty

#4. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mikhail Bakunin

#5. Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

Criss Jami

#6. 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.

William Hazlitt

#7. Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Idries Shah

#8. Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Criss Jami

#9. We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Jack Kevorkian

#10. True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Garth Brooks

#11. Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

Edmund White

#13. 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

#14. Mr. Gabriel Parsons led the way to the house. He was a sugar-baker, who mistook rudeness for honesty, and abrupt bluntness for an open and candid manner; many besides Gabriel mistake bluntness for sincerity.

Charles Dickens

#15. If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.

Brian Spellman

#16. The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made.

Groucho Marx

#18. I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

Colin Quinn

#19. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Criss Jami

#20. From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Thiruvalluvar

#21. Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Nelson Mandela

#23. I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Christopher Phillips

#24. The ultimate resources are EMOTIONAL STATES:
Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love
these are the ultimate human resources and when you engage these resources you can get any other resource on earth.

Tony Robbins

#25. 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

#26. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

Kevin DeYoung

#27. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

Criss Jami

#28. For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

Zoe Heller

#29. Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,

David McCullough

#30. Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

Angelica Hopes

#31. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Criss Jami

#32. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

Dalai Lama

#34. Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

#35. Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another.

Mesa Selimovic

#36. You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

Dean Koontz

#37. He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#38. I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

Michael Schur

#39. The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

#40. How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Herta Muller