Sincerity Quotes - Page 26

• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  Umar

  Prayer, Fasting, Looks

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• The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

  Umar

  Prayer, Intention, Efficacy

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• Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Character, Mean, Self

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.

  Mancur Olson

  Strong, Attitude, War

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Apology, Government, Firsts

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• Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Mean, Practicals, Life Means

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• In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

  John de Ruiter

  Profound, Doe, Way

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• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Important, Serious, Seriousness

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• ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

  A. O. Scott

  Directors, Use, Way

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• Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Odds, Minorities, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

  KAORI

  Play, Giving, Performances

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• As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.436

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• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, May, Action

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• Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Believe, May

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• [Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.

  Ilana Glazer

  Fake, Hollywood, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

  Scott Avett

  Keys, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Self, Rumor, Characterization

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• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  C. Everett Koop

  Jobs, Children, Philadelphia

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• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Wisdom, Coffee, Men

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• In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
  Yu was very brave and won
  many battles, but in the end
  he failed. Treat people with
  sincerity and build a good
  organization. Otherwise, it
  doesn’t matter how famous
  or how capable you are.

  Li Ka-shing

  Organization, People, Brave

  "On Corporate Strategy". Shantou University Business School Economic Forum, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Expression, Ignorant

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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• When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

  Confucius

  Instruction, Given, Conditions

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Simplicity, Style, Orderliness

  william strunk, jr. (1959). “the elements of style”

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