Quotes About Authenticity

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

I fit perfectly within my vibration. I am wholly complete in the knowledge that I am who I am supposed to be!

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.