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Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.
Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.
I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Sincerity is simplicity.
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
What is the quality of your intent?
anti-intellectual
I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Good intentions. A simple thing. If only one knows what a tomorrow has in store for them.
Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)
There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
Others declare good intentions
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.
Introvert integrity means going the distance for what we love: moving from apology to acceptance, from acceptance to acknowledgement, and from acknowledgment to activism.
There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings.
Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence.
Idleness leads to insolence.
The insolence of office.
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Integrity Intention Doing Better Moral Distress The Moral Demands of Compassionate Health Care Authenticity What Is Our Work?
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
Excessive politeness fools your mind.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
Is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.
If you remain 'insincere' to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
We have nothing to fear but insincerity.
Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
Sincerity is only as good as what we are sincere about.
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
Egolessness is contentment.
What is dignity without honesty?
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.
indifference but detachment
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
People have called me fake, but personally, I don't think I'm fake because I'm so insincere.
What is more arrogant than honesty?
Indifference creates an artificial peace.
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Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
The impudence of Ignorance
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
A good intention feeds no one.
Doing the right thing with the wrong motives is deplorable.
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
Pay It Forward: A random act of kindness towards another person with no expectation of return on investment. (my own definition)
If the blaming action produces a false apology, patronization of the moral code, and false promises with no intention of complying with moral law, it prevents satisfaction in the victim.
73. When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
[I]t would be a niceness that was enforced leniently, patiently and gracefully, with the sort of unflappable self-certainty [they] couldn't help displaying when all its statistics proved that it really was doing the right thing.
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.
An admitted insensibility or immorality simplifies life as much as does easy virtue; it converts reproachable actions, for which one no longer need seek any excuse, into a duty imposed by sincerity.
A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
How does immorality slip into a person's life who is experiencing great emotional pain? It does so in the form of relief. The adversary disguises it to look good and justified in the early stages. By the time it is seen as bad medicine, it is well into the system of the patient.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary