Quotes About Authenticity

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

My success is not who I am.

he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.

falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Bueno, siempre labios que dicen lo que el corazón no siente

Ogni falsità è una maschera, e per quanto la maschera sia ben fatta, si arriva sempre, con un po' di attenzione, a distinguerla dal volto.

rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.

ambicionava voltar a ver em mim DESEJOS sobejamente intensos para submeter à realidade.

Não conheço outra verdade senão a dos meus desejos.

Immobilisé, je me mis à vivre avec moi, ce qui n'était pas dans mes habitudes ; et cette intimité nouvelle me fit découvrir le miracle de se côtoyer réellement, préambule à tout amour réel.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

One sees that history is an art gallery where there are few originals and many copies.