Quotes About Authenticity

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

I think success is being exactly who God called us to be and fighting to your death to live that out.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.

Greatness doesn't come from what you do, but from who you are.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Don't be a person of success, be a person of value.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

Authentic success is living by your own lights.

Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.