Quotes About Authenticity

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Detached analysis has a place—but, in the end, you've got to speak from the heart and pose the question of truth.)

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

So by my lights, the number one rule for salespeople is to show customers that you genuinely like them. There's a wise adage that fits this logic well: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

un comunicador que alude pronto a alguna debilidad es visto enseguida como alguien sincero.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

What is imagination? I don't believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.

Horror is the removal of masks.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

The best things in life are not only free, they require less assembly.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.