Quotes About Authenticity

Im no beauty queen,im just beautiful me

I'm not stupid; I just lack common sense. I'm not a poser; I'm just crazy. I'm not miss popularity; I just have a lot of friends. I'm not mean; I just have weird jokes. I'm not insecure; I just don't trust people. I'm just me and if you don't like it, then that sucks for you.

I may not be perfect but I am always me!

Be who you really are, do not change for anyone, and always, always dream big enough to achieve.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting

If people dont like me for whatever I do, for being me, then thats too bad. I dont want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

This is your life, not theirs, don't worry about what people think, do what you like. People gonna hate you, judge you, break you, but how strong you stand, thats what makes defines you and make you stand strong in the time of adversity.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The more you admit to your true inner most feelings and thoughts, you will gain a deeper understanding and love of yourself.

Stop worrying about what others want. Think about what you want, if you listen too much to what people say about you, you will never be able to do what you want and be who you really are.

Do not spend more time on trying to please others than on yourself.

We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, but in those rare times, when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.

Don't force yourself to be someone because you never know, you may have better abilities than them. Just let them inspire you and do it without being that person.

Do what you like, be what you want to be, life is too short to waste on doing things that you don't like.

Keep your word it creates a life of never having to explain who you are.