Sincere Quotes

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Friendship, Real Friends, Night

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Produce

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

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• Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

  Mother Teresa

  Accepting, Dealings

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.45, New World Library

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• Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Keys, Doors, Trying

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1973.

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• Any sincere thought is irresistible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Sincerity, Irresistible

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

  Confucius

  Men, Speech, Sincerity

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• The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Forgiving

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• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

  Basil Rathbone

  Regret, Heart, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love Is, Faithful, Prudent

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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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• The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sincerity

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

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• 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

  Lying, Earth, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2217, Delphi Classics

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• At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

  Lord Acton

  Triumph, Minorities, Association

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Vision, Search For Truth

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

  Tristan Bernard

  Men, Sincerity

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• Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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• Only that which is not said is sincere.

  Fernando Sabino

  Said

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Witty, Stupid

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

  Edward Albee

  Mean, Sincerity, Persons

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Sincerity, Vow

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

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