Quotes About Authenticity

When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it's the most freeing thing in the world.

What you are speaks so loudly that I can't hear what you say." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

Imagen es lo que la gente piensa que somos. Integridad es lo que en realidad somos.

People don't expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If

rey del antiguo Israel, declaró: «De más estima es el buen nombre que las muchas riquezas, y la buena fama más que la plata y el oro».2 Pero la buena reputación es el reflejo del carácter de la persona. Si la reputación es como el oro, entonces tener integridad es como ser dueño de la mina. Preocúpese menos por lo que otros piensan y préstele atención a su carácter interno.

O dinheiro não muda o homem, simplesmente o desmascara. (Henry Ford, p. 107)

Afterward a reporter asked Gandhi's assistant, Mahadev Desai, how the Indian statesman had been able to deliver such a speech without any notes. "You don't understand Gandhi," Desai responded. "You see, what he thinks is what he feels. What he feels is what he says. What he says is what he does. What Gandhi feels, what he thinks, what he says, and what he does are all the same. He does not need notes.

Thomas Macauley said, "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would never be found out." Life is like a vise; at times it will squeeze us. At those moments of pressure, whatever is inside will be found out. We cannot give what we do not have. Image promises much but produces little. Integrity never disappoints.

Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do."8

If you want to get ahead, leading up is much better than kissing up." —DAN REILAND

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

Integrity is your best friend. And it's also one of the best friends that your friends will ever have. When the people around you know that you're a person of integrity, they know that you want to influence them because of the opportunity to add value to their lives. They don't have to worry about your motives.

I observed that the greatest speakers didn't just tell better stories. They actually made the stories better by living them first.

Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.

Lo que eres habla tan fuerte que no puedo oír lo que dices».

D. L. Moody escribió: «Si me ocupo de mi carácter, mi reputación se ocupará de sí misma».

Borrowed beliefs have no passion, therefore no power.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess." Your goal should be to waste as little of your life as possible. As former MLB catcher Jim Sundberg says, "Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

Los líderes exitosos son como un iceberg. Cuando uno mira un iceberg, se ve sólo el 10% en la superficie, el resto está debajo del agua. Cuando usted mira a líderes exitosos, solamente mira una fracción de sus vidas. Usted ve la parte que realmente se ve bien, pero por lo general hay mucho que no se ve y que no es emocionante ni glamoroso.

Andrew Carnegie said, "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." Great

The first key to greatness," Socrates reminds us, "is to be in reality what we appear to be.

People need your influence, but it will not come through 'lip syncing' those you admire.

The more you do to go beyond words, the greater the chance you will connect with people.