Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
~George Orwell

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~Oscar Wilde

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
~George Bernard Shaw

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

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
~George Henry Lewes

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~Mencius

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~Jean Giraudoux

Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
~Thomas Carlyle

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
~Paramhansa Yogananda

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
~T Shirt Quotes

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
~Xun Zi

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
~Edmond Rostand

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha

Here are some self help quotes to inspire you.

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
~Carol Burnett

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
~Jawaharlal Nehru

“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
~Cyril Connolly

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
~Ernest Hemingway

“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.”
~ Brian Tracy

“Success is something you attract by the person you become. ”
~ Jim Rohn

“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
~Calvin Coolidge.. So control what you say to help yourself from the troubles that arises out of putting your foot in the mouth.

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
~ Harvey MacKay

“A mind that has been stretched will never return to it’s original dimension.”
~Albert Einstein

“The only cure for grief is action.”
~George Henry Lewis

AND REMEMBER NEVER TO GIVE UP
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
~Babe Ruth

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
~Malcolm Gladwell,

“His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.”
~H.G. Wells

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
~C.S. Lewis

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
~Abigail Adams

“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.”
~ Confucius

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
~Thomas Calyle,

“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
~Dr. Haim Ginott

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
~ Mortimer Adler

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
~Eartha Kitt

“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
~Carl Jung

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
~Jack Welch

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ”
~Louisa May Alcott

“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain” ”
~Aristotle

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~ Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.”
~ Ray LeBlond

“I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.”
~Chinese Proverbs

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ”
~Novali German poet

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.”
~ Galileo Galilei

“Learning is the art of ignoring. ”
~Elias Canetti

“But you should first be clear about what success means to you, because as this quote below says,
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn’t a millionaire.Here’s what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn’t.”
~Jim Rohn

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”
~David Brinkley

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
~Earl Nightingale

” Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
~Albert Schweitzer

“It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
~ Aristotle

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.”
~Arie de Gues

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
~ Marie Currie

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
~ David Rockefelle

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
~ Norman R. Augustine

” I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”
~Henry Drummond

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~Thomas Alva Edison

“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.”
~Zig Ziglar

After reading these success quotes, I hope you will have been clearer about your goals now.

And when you are defeated, do understand that it is not the end of the world, and success comes to those who refuses to yield. And pasts defeats will only add to the sweetness of your victories later:

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
~Malcolm S. Forbes

“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Victory is a thing of the will.”
~General Ferdinand Foch

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
~ Louis L’Amour

“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
~John Milton

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
~ St. Augustine

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.”
~ Harry S Truman

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
~Winston Churchill

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
~Harriet Woods

“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
~William Hazlitt

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”
~Zig Ziglar

“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.”
~Joan Benoit Samuelson

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
~Blaise Pascal

“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
~ Plato

“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
~Daisaku Ikeda

“The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.”
~ F. A. Wickett

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
~Sun Tzu

“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
~Sun Tzu

“The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
~Wilma Rudolph

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
~Aristotle

“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person”
~ Mark Twain

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
~Mark Twain

“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
~Vincent Van Gogh

We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
~ William Shakespeare

“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is “lighter than vanity.”
~John Bunyan

“The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”
~Maria Mitchell

“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice”
~ Walter Savage Landor

“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~George Savile

“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity”
~Jean de la Bruyere

“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this”
~ Blaise Pascal

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
~John Keats

Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~George Eliot

“Religion is the highest vanity.”
~ Hebbel

A man’s own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
~Honore de Balzac

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
~ John Ruskin

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life
~ Harvey MacKay

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
~Henry David Thoreau

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow’s; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~Benjamin Franklin

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~Pablo Picasso

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~Pearl S. Buck

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~Henry J. Kaiser

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~Aristotle

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
~Abraham Lincoln

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
~Uri Geller

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas A. Edison

“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
~ John D. Rockefeller

One may go a long way after one is tired.
~French Proverb

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
~William James

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
~Christopher Morley

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance
~ Samuel Johnson

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~ Albert Einstein

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
~Douglas MacArthur

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~ Plutarch

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
~Napoleon Hill

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
~Stephen Kaggwa

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
~ William Blake

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
~Walter Elliot

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~ Newt Gingrich

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
~Robert Frost

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
~Dale Carnegie

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
~Seneca quotes

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
~Anthony J. D’Angelo

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in your subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
~Earl Nightingale

“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
~Anthony Robbins

“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”
~ Arthur Buddhold

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
~ Martha Graham

“So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about~ that is the difference between good and great!”
~Shawn Doyle

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.” ~Unknown

“Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!”
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive ‘nows.’”
~Sue Halpern

“Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense.”
~ Josh Hinds

“Great dancers aren’t great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
~Unknown

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means”
~ William Hazlitt

“I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”~ Margaret Mead

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” ~ Robert Frost

“”I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”~Carl Sandburg

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” ~ Douglas Macarthur

“They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is one of my all time favorites, “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee. very true and Inspiring

“”I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along,
not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.”~ Helen Keller