Quotes About Authenticity

Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.

Lie to yourself if you want, but you're not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn't really want it.

Be as advertised.

You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?

Success means nothing if you don't know who you are. If you don't know who you are then you are not a success.

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you're about.

I applaud those who speak, but I admire those who act.

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.

Be yourself.Become all that you want to be.You should go as far as you can.There is no limit to what you can achieve.

Life's too short to live someone else's

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.