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 JamiTags: inspirational kindness weakness purity criticism sincerity envy necessary good-intentions motives intentions bad-intentions spot validity
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
Criss JamiTags: honesty sincerity dishonesty insincerity kind pointless nice canceled cancelled nullified
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 JamiTags: world justice war revenge hatred purity media news attitude opposition sincerity ruin spite bitterness vengeance correction pure distinction sincere instigator instigation world-news
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. FrankfurtTags: truth philosophy bullshit sincerity 2005
If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
William ShakespeareTags: sincerity
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
Frances Power CobbeTags: sincerity social-change
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.Tags: inspirational-quotes emotions sincerity poise self-preservation wisdom-quotes the-art-of-poise
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. ChestertonTags: sincerity
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage LandorTags: kindness cats sincerity flattery
You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it's how it mends it
Tags: words love poetry kissing writing beauty silence speech poem lyrics sincerity value worth beautiful hearts sober rhyme prudence
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