“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Not that we were being insincere. Or maybe I should say we were being sincere in our insincerity. — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced,… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don't mean… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
