(295 quotes found)
“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
“Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.”
Peggy Noonan
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
Pablo Picasso
“His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth”
William Shakespeare
“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”
Mencius
“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”
Charles Pierce
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”
Edward R. Murrow
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles”
Confucius
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”
D.H. Lawrence