Quotes About Authenticity

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

If you're lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak.

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don't feel like it—say no, thanks. Don't fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

Always be truthful. When you lie to others, you are really lying to yourself.

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.