Quotes About Authenticity

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Men should be what they seem.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

There are no real men.