Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I've often admired the way many Catholics who have left the priesthood, for example, have nevertheless remained sincere Catholics. They voted with… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People… — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image