Quotes about Sincerity
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
he was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere—of these things he was certain. Beside her the two dozen schoolgirls and débutantes, young married women and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, in the word's most contemptuous sense, breeders and bearers, exuding still that faintly odorous atmosphere of the cave and the nursery.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
- Stephen Covey
Be who you are and be that well.
- Francis de Sales
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
- Origen
I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth.
- India Arie
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
- Francis de Sales
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You've got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can't really achieve anything great without the help of others.
- Lou Holtz