Quotes About Authenticity

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

False in one thing, false in everything

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Words gain credibility by deed.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.