Sincerity Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Vitality, Fiction

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• Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

  Howard Nemerov

  Religious, War, Science

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Simple, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Mood, Insincere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.137, University of Missouri Press

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• If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mood, Prophet, Certificates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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