sincerity quotes

• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. (Albert Camus) [men/honesty/death]
• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. (Thomas Carlyle) [honesty]
• Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration. (Andrew Carnegie) [concentration/honesty/concentration]
• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [honesty]
• Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. ( Confucius) [honesty]
• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ( Confucius) [honesty/truth/basis/virtue]
• To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ( Confucius) [perfect/virtue/honesty]
• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. (Joseph Conrad) [danger/honesty/truth/cold]
• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. (George Eliot) [honesty/more/more]
• Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [honesty/luxury/goodwill]
• Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay, (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [honesty]
• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. (Henry Fielding) [fool/honesty/willpower]
• Honesty is the best policy. (Benjamin Franklin) [honesty]
• Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson) [honesty/wisdom]
• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [mankind/honesty/people]
• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. (James Lowell) [honesty/being/character]
• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. (John Lyly) [measure/life/honesty]
• Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. (Ed McMahon) [honesty/product]
• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. ( Plato) [honesty]
• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. (John Ruskin) [honesty/education]
• A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. (George Santayana) [men/honesty]
• I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. (Susan Sarandon) [words/people/honesty/time]
• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. (William Shakespeare) [honesty]
• We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. (George Bernard Shaw) [honesty]
• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. (Henry David Thoreau) [food/wine/honesty/truth]
• After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask. (Henry David Thoreau) [honesty]
• Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. (Mark Twain) [honesty/money]
• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. (Oscar Wilde) [value/honesty]
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. (Oscar Wilde) [honesty/thing]
• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. (Bill Bixby) [honesty]
• I think what Roddenberry started and what was continued - and I'm not sure about the series today - was a Judeo-Christian ethic of hard work and morality and honesty: All the good principles we are taught and try to adhere to in some fashion. (William Shatner) [think//honesty/fashion]

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