Sincere Quotes - Page 19

• I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

  Carl Rogers

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.

  Ibn Warraq

  Christian, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I would like people to see me as someone who is genuine and sincere and cares about the people who support me, and who doesn't forget how lucky I am to be doing what I love.

  Steve Grand

  People, Support, Lucky

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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• If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Kindness, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.190, Penguin

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• 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

  Doubt, Firsts, Asking For Forgiveness

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• When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heaven, Earth, Seven

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• Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Obedience, Evidence, Infallible

  "Works: With a Memoir of His Life".

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• Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Real, Independent

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• How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

  Thomas Merton

  Thinking, Mind, Shadow

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

  Muhammad Ali

  Book, Fighting, People

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• You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowerment… I speak from a very truthful and sincere place…with love

  Stacy Barthe

  Hurt, Pain, Light

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• I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  Lady Gaga

  Makeup, Reality, Thinking

  "The Real Lady Gaga". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 6, 2011.

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• With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Foundation, Devotion, Stellar

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• Minister every day. Opportunities are all around you. Look for them. Ask the Lord to help you recognize them. You will find that most consist of small, sincere acts that help others become followers of Jesus Christ.

  David L. Beck

  Jesus, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Psychics

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• Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Frivolous

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• A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There are dozens of these parties, sponsored by large corporations with a sincere public-spirited desire to become larger.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Party, Political

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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• Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Integrity, Oneness, Honest

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• When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk the strait and narrow path together. Our example is magnified in their eyes. They will follow our cadence when they feel secure in our actions. We do not need to be perfect-just honest and sincere. Children want to feel as one with us. When a parent says, "We can do it! We can read the scriptures daily as a family," the children will follow!

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Desire, Principles

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.6

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• I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

  Jim Wallis

  Faith, Real, Thinking

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• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  Wayne Wonder

  Song, Heart, People

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5.

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• The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Giving, Youth

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• I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it.

  Peter Abelard

  Love, Hate, Philosophy

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• Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

  Chuck Mangione

  Talking, People, Way

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