Quotes About Authenticity

When someone shows you there true colors don't try to change them

Before you tell someone how to get from point A to point B. Before you advise someone to get their house clean. Before you educate someone on how to live their life..., you better first know where you fall in the alphabet, that your own house is in order, and you are living right. Hypocrisy is never fashionable or a good look.

People tell me how to live when they ain't even living right.

It may be hard to remember, but you are who you are. You shouldn't change for people who don't accept you.

Practice what you preach before you try to teach it to someone else.

If the sheets are still on the bed when its over, your doing it wrong.

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

Tell the truth, or eventually someone will tell it for you.

Success can breed fake friends and true enemies...Keep your circle tight.

Always accept and feel comfortable with your flaws, that way no one can ever use them against you.

Your face is not a coloring book. Chill with the makeup!

The best piece of advice I can give anyone is for them to be themselves. Being myself has helped me gain a better understanding of the world around me, specially my friends.

About the worst advice you can give to some people is, Be yourself.

Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.

Speak your mind. Don't let anyone censor you. It's the best advice. Even as a teenager, I always said what I was thinking. I wasn't afraid of what others think. You have to express yourself no matter what anyone else thinks about it.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Encourage youth to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit in.

You all have gifts and talents that make you different, unique, special. When you try to impress someone by acting like someone you are not you cover up the real you. The world needs the real you. People count. People matter. You count. You matter. In your own way, at your own time, YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Never live life in your own shadow. Instead, break free and allow your soul to soar.

Beauty isn't in the clothes you wear, or the way you look. It's in your eyes, your smile, and your laugh. It's the way you breathe in life, and the way you chase after what you want. Beauty is living in spite of everything out there that tries to pull you down.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do... listen to people who encourage you to do what you know in your heart is right...

You can't lead someone in a direction that you are not going yourself.