Quotes about Sincerity

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them

A man of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force — not even the highest intellectual force — that can compare with it. Men are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity.

A man of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force — not even the highest intellectual force — that can compare with it. Men are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity.

A man of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force — not even the highest intellectual force — that can compare with it. Men are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity.