Quotes About Authenticity

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it

We were never wet. It was never wet," Lutz told the Advocate.

Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.

Did you have sex with me because you wanted to or because you wanted something from me?" "Both," she said immediately, and I know now that she was telling the truth, that she was done lying to me, although at that moment I wasn't yet ready to believe her. "I don't believe you," I said.

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

If by weirdo he meant that Nick didn't play grab-ass with the wannabes on the street corner, didn't yank at his crotch and call girls bitches, didn't wear oversized jerseys and pretend to be a gangsta all day, then yeah, Nick had to agree.

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

First, earn the right to get their attention; then show them Jesus – perhaps not with words but always with action.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

The commander spoke to them as he always did, with sincerity and determination, but without theatrics.

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

Though we all ''perform'' for others to some extent, the mask slips easily for those who have sufferd early neglect.

Some argue that it is the very attempt to institutionalize love that destroys it. The more love is rendered obligatory, a duty, whether religious, moral, or otherwise, the more it shrivels up and dies like a plant cultivated under the wrong conditions. "If we really love each other, why do we need a stupid piece of paper?" they ask.

The more that you can allow authentic human voices to represent your company, the better your company will be at building profitable and sustainable relationships.

The best business people are show people, as are the most effective educators and the most compassionate physicians. Whether consciously or not, they operate their professional lives as though they were in show business.

Advice for writers: if you're a writer, a real writer, a really, really real writer, like, REALLY a writer, you should not write a sentence like this one.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.