Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

Church can't be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we're afraid to allow others to see our messes. It's got to feel like home.

I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Honesty is all you need.

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.