58 Sincerity Quotes To Inspire

In a world often overwhelmed by pretense and superficiality, the value of sincerity shines all the more brightly. Authenticity in our words and actions can build trust, deepen relationships, and inspire those around us. To celebrate the essence of being genuine, we've handpicked a collection of 58 sincerity quotes that will resonate with your heart and mind. Whether you're seeking a spark of motivation, a touch of wisdom, or a reminder to stay true to yourself, these quotes offer timeless insight into the power of sincerity. Dive in and let these words inspire you to live more authentically every day.

1. “The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.” - Harry G. Frankfurt

2. “Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

3. “The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.” - Erwin Schrödinger

4. “He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.” - La Rochefoucauld

5. “By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.” - Christian Dior

6. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy

7. “When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.” - Lao Tzu

8. “An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.” - David Foster Wallace

9. “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.” - Albert Camus

10. “My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?” - Jane Austen

11. “Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.” - Diana Wynne Jones

12. “Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.” - George Burns

13. “I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.” - Greta Garbo

14. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” - Confucius

15. “No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?” - Honoré de Balzac

16. “Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.” - Honoré de Balzac

17. “But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.” - Thornton Wilder

18. “Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.” - Toba Beta

19. “Sincere deeds invite new friends.” - Toba Beta

20. “Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.” - Glen Keane

21. “There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.” - G.K. Chesterton

22. “sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live” - Mark Leidner

23. “A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.” - Criss Jami

24. “The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.” - Criss Jami

25. “Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.” - Criss Jami

26. “When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.” - Criss Jami

27. “Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.” - Harry G. Frankfurt

28. “When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.” - Walter Savage Landor

29. “If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.” - William Shakespeare

30. “People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.” - Haruki Murakami

31. “My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.” - Frances Power Cobbe

32. “You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it” - Criss Jami

33. “‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.” - Billy Graham

34. “I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.” - C. JoyBell C.

35. “Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no sè cuánto recuerdo y cuánto es producto de mi imaginación;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro.” - Isabel Allende

36. “You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.” - Jim Butcher

37. “Be sincere in your thoughts,Be pure in your feelings.You will not have to run after happiness.Happiness will run after you.” - Sri Chinmoy

38. “In the inner life, if there is no sincerity, nothing can be achieved. And to whom are you being sincere? You are being sincere to yourself. You have a higher reality and you have a lower reality. When you become sincere, immediately you pull your lower reality up to your higher reality. Just like a magnet, your higher reality pulls up your lower reality so that it can take shelter in the higher reality.” - Sri Chinmoy

39. “After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?” - Orhan Pamuk

40. “She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye.” - Feodor Dostoevsky

41. “She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.” - Jane Austen

42. “Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?” - Idries Shah

43. “Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.” - A.W. Tozer

44. “You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.” - Criss Jami

45. “A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.” - Mark Twain

46. “For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.” - Catherynne M. Valente

47. “Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.” - Haruki Murakami

48. “No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end andlearn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.” - Haruki Murakami

49. “La sincerità è sintetica, a volte telegrafica, e perciò spietata.” - Diego De Silva

50. “You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.” - Dean Koontz

51. “isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?” - Milan Kundera

52. “Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.” - Eva Heller

53. “You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.” - Criss Jami

54. “So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.” - Jason Mraz

55. “I hear another man cry, “Oh, sir my want of strength lies mainly in this, that I cannot repent sufficiently!” A curious idea men have of what repentance is! Many fancy that so many tears are to be shed, and so many groans are to be heaved, and so much despair is to be endured. Whence comes this unreasonable notion? Unbelief and despair are sins, and therefore I do not see how they can be constituent elements of acceptable repentance; yet there are many who regard them as necessary parts of true Christian experience. They are in great error. Still, I know what they mean, for in the days of my darkness I used to feel in the same way. I desired to repent, but I thought that I could not do it, and yet all the while I was repenting. Odd as it may sound, I felt that I could not feel. I used to get into a corner and weep, because I could not weep; and I fell into bitter sorrow because I could not sorrow for sin. What a jumble it all is when in our unbelieving state we begin to judge our own condition! It is like a blind man looking at his own eyes. My heart was melted within me for fear, because I thought that my heart was as hard as an adamant stone. My heart was broken to think that it would not break. Now I can see that I was exhibiting the very thing which I thought I did not possess; but then I knew not where I was. Remember that the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. We can no more repent perfectly than we can live perfectly. However pure our tears, there will always be some dirt in them: there will be something to be repented of even in our best repentance. But listen! To repent is to change your mind about sin, and Christ, and all the great things of God. There is sorrow implied in this; but the main point is the turning of the heart from sin to Christ. If there be this turning, you have the essence of true repentance, even though no alarm and no despair should ever have cast their shadow upon your mind.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

56. “Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.” - Judith McNaught

57. “Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.” - Aberjhani

58. “Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future!” - Honoré de Balzac