Sincerity Quotes

• Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Spiritual, And Love

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

  John Wooden

  May, Helping

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Life Is, Sincere

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Persons, Values

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• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  Confucius

  Truth, Human Nature, Virtue

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• To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Believe

  Letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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• Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

  John Tillotson

  Thinking, Promise, Speak

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

  Tacitus

  Fear, Truth, Habit

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• Sincerity is always subject to proof.

  John F. Kennedy

  Proof, Subjects

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Sincerity is the way to heaven.

  Mencius

  Reality, Heaven, Way

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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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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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

  'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

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• Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

  Jim Rohn

  Truth, Mistake, Judging

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2015

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• Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

  Mencius

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.179

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• I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

  Jules Renard

  Sincere

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• If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Kindness, Home

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• So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

  John F. Kennedy

  Weakness, Sides, Remember

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• The Devil hinders me. You know I say
  Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
  And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
  I cannot say one thing and mean another.
  If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mean, Thinking, Knows

  "Selected Poems".

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• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hypocrite, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

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