Quotes About Authenticity

disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.

What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.

Want to help others? Be yourself. You'll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

you were born as an origional don't die as a copy

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone's version of reality is not your reality.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

Sincerity of purpose.

You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

It is not the clock that strikes the loudest that keeps the best time. The expensive chronometer works steadily along doing its work well and faithfully. It does not attract as much attention as the gilt clock with its sweet chimes, but men who know things are aware that the chronometer has the more real merit. Have the chronometer for your ideal and not the fancy clock, for true merit will certainly receive due reward.

Remember that your reputation is made by others, but your character is made by you!

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.

Scars signal skin in the game.

it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.

At the end, what matters is the strength of the string—not the wealth and power of the dining party.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.