Saturday 31 August 2013

Sincerity - Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde

A sincere donation of a dollar from a poor man may be more meritorious than a million dollars from a rich man. - Unknown

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

However much we may distrust men’s sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. - Unknown

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. - Unknown

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. - Edward Albee

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. - La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity is like travelling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. - John Tillotson 

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little. - G. I. Gurdjieff

Sincerity is the way to heaven. - Mencius

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. - Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired. - Eiji Yoshikawa

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