A Quote by Nicholas Sparks

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

Nicholas Sparks

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Nicholas Sparks
American - Novelist
Born: December 31, 1965

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

Nicholas Sparks

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

Zig Ziglar

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

You must have patience with others because, if you do not have patience, your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must have patience and to get patience you must know what you have been so far and where are you. When you will know what you were, you will have patience with others, tremendous patience. And by having patience with others, your sincerity will be all the time complete. By your sincerity, you will be completely integrated.

Nirmala Srivastava

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

George Whitefield

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Corita Kent

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

John Wayne

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Ramakrishna

Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

Jim Rohn

Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

Pablo Neruda

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Zig Ziglar

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

Frederick Lenz

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Benjamin Franklin

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Oscar Wilde

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.