Sincerity Quotes - Page 9

• Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Cheer, Journey

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• Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

  Peggy Noonan

  Strong, Politics, Politician

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• I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

  Irene Cara

  Song, Voice, Alive

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• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophy, Rock N Roll

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• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Age, Century, Mass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Hollywood, Pay, Acquaintance

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• What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait

  Hattie McDaniel

  Hollywood, World, Demand

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• This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Book, Philosophical, Thinking

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• I sing with all my heart and when I see the audience feel it too, I feel so touched I get goosebumps…To my fans, I would like to say, 'I will work harder', rather than to say, 'I love you' because I believe that sincerity has its way of getting across to touch hearts.

  Taeyang

  Believe, Love You, Hard Work

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• Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

  Alla Nazimova

  Art, Voice, Acting

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• To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

  David James

  Beautiful, World, Earth

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• I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

  John McCain

  Doubt, Should, Democratic

  John McCain's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Expectations, Done, Ability

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

  George Washington

  Thinking, Gentleman, Events

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.121

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• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  Garth Brooks

  Country, Honesty, Real

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• The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Desire

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• My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Pessimism, Cynicism

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• The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

  Charles Peguy

  Artist, Insincerity

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• Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Heart, Sea, Land

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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• An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Betrayal, Artist, Betray

  "The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Mark

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 596-97), Pensées Diverses, No. 372. Gilbert's ed. (1857), Volume I, p. 475, 1922.

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• I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Ignorance, Clouds

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

  Juvenal

  World, Assurance, Mistaken

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