Quotes about Sincerity

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.

J. C. Ryle said, There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough - a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice - which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.3

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.