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Jean Giraudoux The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Fred Allen You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love.
Oscar W. Firkins All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
Oscar W. Firkins All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
Dr. William Claire Menninger Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Confucius To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Paul De Gondi When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.
EMERSON: _The Problem._ The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233. 'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wick
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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.
"Sincerity is no substitute for competence." P.E.I. Bonewits
"Sincerity? I can fake that." - Bill Clinton
"I question your sincerity, Lore." - Data
"Sincerity? I can fake that." - Hawkeye Pierce
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. 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.
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

 

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