Sincere Quotes - Page 25

• Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Showing Off

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• Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

  Gordon Lish

  Writing, Crafts, Sincerity

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• First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example everlasting.

  Henry Lee III

  Leadership, War, Heart

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Powerful, Issues

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• I wrote a cheesy love song - called "Tender Torture". I guess it's more of a song about being away from someone that you love. It's pretty strange. It's sincere, I guess. It's actually something that I really felt.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Cheesy, Strange

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  Origen

  Wisdom, Son, Quality

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sincere wishes come true.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wish, Wishes Come True

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• When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Real, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.249, Xist Publishing

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• The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, Thinking, Dull

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• It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Mind, Movement

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists, p. 73, 1913.

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• The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Ravens

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.74, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

  Bruce Barton

  Simple, Voice, People

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• Great men are sincere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Great Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Mind, Quiet

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Atonement, Christ

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• As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

  George Whitefield

  Blessing, People, Giving

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.880, CCEL

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• Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply
  sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your
  indifference.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Imperfection, Mind, Faults

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Real, Honest, Christianity

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• I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Divine Guidance

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Taken, Complaining, Praise

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sea, Water

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Shining, Technique

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

  Anne Frank

  Character, Circles, Long

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.209, Anchor

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Men, People

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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