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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

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.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

The secret of success is sincerity.