Quotes About Authenticity

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

She had a way of pouring everything of herself into what she did. When she fought, she was the blade. When she loved, she was the kiss. In that regard, she was far more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ human than any I have known.

Let your actions defend you, not your words.

I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

I think the trick is convincing yourself that you deserve the reactions you get. You can wear the court's dresses, Vin, but make them your own. Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.' 'I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

So yes, I, Adolin Kholin--cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom--have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.

It's worse when they think they're your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.

Navani Kholin was not some timid, perfect ideal. She was a sour storm of a woman, set in her ways, stubborn as a boulder rolling down a mountain, and increasingly impatient with things she considered foolish. He loved her the most for that.

But I'd like you however you were, Vin. I love you. The question is, how do you like yourself?

The most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

She'd felt … comfortable with Elend. Looking back on the experience, she realized that for those few moments, she hadn't really been Lady Valette. Nor had she been Vin, for that part of her—the timid crewmember—was almost as fake as Valette was. No, she'd simply been … whoever she was.

praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld.

There was safety in being the one everyone else looked to. I felt everything, but I didn't want anyone to know it.

How much of what you've done was about love, and how much was about proving something?

A child's instincts are often the most honest.

You command respect by being who you are." My face got warm. "I don't feel like that," I said. "Yeah," Rig said. "I guess none of us really believe the good things about ourselves, do we?

I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a place for them inside, you see.

Clothing doesn't really change a man," Elend said. "But it changes how others react to him. Tindwyl's words. I think… I think the trick is convincing yourself that you deserve the reactions you get. You can wear the court's dresses, Vin, but make them your own. Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

I'm pretty good at being me," I said. "I've had all these years to practice—I hardly ever get it wrong these days.