(295 quotes found)
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“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
“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”
Bruce Barton
“As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you”
Grenville Kleiser
“True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.”
Garth Brooks
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Albert Camus
“The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.”
Henri Matisse
“A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.”
Don Williams Jr
“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness”
Confucius
“But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
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