Insincere Quotes

• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accomplishment

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• It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

  Samuel Richardson

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.424

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• There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

  Daniel Smith

  Selfish, Moving, Ideas

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• In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Spring, Heart

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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Personality, Youth, Periods

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• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Evil

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Monsters, Deeds, Pay

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Views, Doe

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

  Tom Verlaine

  People, Way, Sincerely

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• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

  Plautus

  Criticism, Compliment, Sincere

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• Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.

  Robert Kegan

  Heart, Mean, Wish

  Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.38, Harvard Business Press

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• One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

  Vladimir Putin

  Lying, Promise, Doe

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• ..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Lying, Eye

  1895 'We Wear the Mask', stanza 1.

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• If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Life, Religious, Hard Work

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• I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

  John Quincy Adams

  Mistake, Serious, Littles

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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Hate, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.11, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Heart

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.33, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

  Byron Katie

  Saying Yes, Saying No, Dishonesty

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2013

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• It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

  Sofia Coppola

  Life, Running, Missing Someone

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• Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Parenting, Light

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Envy, Unjust

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• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  Solomon

  Bible, Fake People, Heart

  "Book of Proverbs". 23:7,

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• I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Heart, Personality

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