Quotes About Authenticity

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.

It is more honourable to have a few trusted friends than to have a lot of fake ones.

The truth will not fetch you many friends, but it will fetch you honest friends.

Surround yourself with people who know your worth. You don't need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for exactly who you are.

Lord, watch over my good friends and protect me from the fake ones.

If your loved one knows you inside and out and loves you for what you are, there's no need to worry about how others see you.

Friends that don't accept you for who you are, aren't really your friends. Your true friends will never try to change you.

When you're with someone you trust in, never needing to pretend, someone who helps you to know yourself, you know you're with a friend.

You may have a lot of friends in your life but the question is that who are the real ones???

Adding friends is not a race. 100 friends is ok. 300 is great. But 3000? Unless you are looking for a crowd to feed with two fish and five slices of bread.

If you're in a relationship, you shouldn't have to act a certain way around your friends. When you truly care about someone, the time, place or people you hang out with shouldn't affect each other's happiness.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.