Quotes About Authenticity

If you try to chase it, if you try to follow trends and anticipate what the next thing is going to be, you will fail. You just have to leave it, you have to go with what it is. You have to be true, you have to be honest.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.

El verdadero amor, el sólido y durable, nace del trato; lo demás es invención de los poetas, de los músicos y demás gente holgazana.

I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.

Historians are fairly certain that Buonarroti spent much time in the Jewish parts of Rome, using the authentic features of real Jews for his images. We can see the proof of that here. Except

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

Non chiedere mai scusa quando esterni un sentimento. Nel momento in cui lo fai, chiedi scusa per la verità.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.

What you seem to be, be really.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted.

The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.