Quotes About Authenticity

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Honestly expressing yourself...it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool...or I can make all kind of phony things, you see what I mean, blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself...now that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Never try to copy a successful personality.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

Honesty and love. — Frankness and truthfulness to myself and to the one I love. Truthful between two as one. You are part of my life, no pride, vanity, or anger involved.

QUESTION: What is the best way for a person to learn Chinese gung fu? BRUCE LEE: By being himself. The main thing is teaching a man to do his thing, to just be himself. The individual is more important than the style. If a person is awkward, he should not try to be agile. I'm against trying to impose a style on a man. This is an art, an expression of a man's own self.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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

Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You've got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for them to mean anything to your audience. That's how they know you're not kidding.

I wanted to be a voice that reflected experience and the world I lived in. So I knew in 1972 that to do this I would need to write very well and more individually than I had ever written before.

All you need to do, is risk being your true self.