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Quotes About Authenticity

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
~ Oprah Winfrey
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
~ Morris Bender
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
~ Epictetus
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
~ Audrey Flack
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
~ Bernadette Peters
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
~ Deena Metzger
Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
~ Steven Pressfield
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
~ Jodie Foster
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
~ Irving Wallace
The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.
~ Patricia Deegan
You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.
~ Marion Blakey
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
~ Patti Smith
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.
~ David Whyte
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
~ Audrey Hepburn
You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.
~ Danielle LaPorte
Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.
~ Richard A. Snelling
I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.
~ Emma Watson
A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
~ Publilius Syrus
As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
~ John Eliot
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
~ John Lennon
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
~ Colin Powell
You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
~ Joel Osteen