Quotes About Authenticity

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.