Quotes About Authenticity

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Once you reach people on an authentic emotional level, they will reward your faith in them with their belief in you, and they will mobilize to get the job done.

Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.