Sincerity Quotes

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. (Confucius)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people. View quote
Kristen Stewart
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence. View quote
David Lloyd George
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. View quote
Jean Henri Fabre
Sincerity is always subject to proof. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. View quote
William Hazlitt
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. View quote
George Eliot
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good. (Samuel Johnson)
Sincerity is the way of Heaven. View quote
Mencius
I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. View quote
Fred Thompson
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. View quote
Halldór Laxness
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. View quote
William Henry Ashley
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. (George Henry Lewes)
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. View quote
George Henry Lewes
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity. View quote
Fatimah