Quotes About Genuineness

I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.

Real You is all you have, and all other paths are false. And in the best case, Real You is so happy to finally be recognized, it rewards you with Originality.

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real.

Whatever your reason is for talking to someone, be sure you are "mostly" honest and genuine because people (especially females) can see through lies. They

She'll be able to sense if you just want to sleep with her, or if you are trying to sell her something, or if you're genuinely a friendly person just looking to meet people. 

They will sense it from a mile away and know if you're full of crap or not

being yourself"; however, the more you smile, the more natural it will feel and eventually if you do it enough, it will become a habit (which takes

NOT to compliment people on their physical features (unless you are completely genuine) because people will often see it as though you just want something from them–and it is often interpreted as you either want to sell them something or have sex with them.

Although, generally speaking, it is best NOT to compliment people on their physical features (unless you are completely genuine) because people will often see it as though you just want something from them–and it is often interpreted as you either want to sell them something or have sex with them. However, if that is your intention, go ahead and compliment them on their physical features (as long as you are genuine about it and mean what you say).

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

people who listen and don't give a damn, but sit there in order to tell their friends that they have attended a lecture by a famous name. All second-handers.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

George Burns line? 'Sincerity—if you can fake that, you've got it made.

he truly suffered . . . not as some unbelievers say, that he suffered only in appearance. They are the ones who are only an appearance

An "orthonymous" (literally, "rightly named") writing is one that really is written by the person who claims to be writing it.

but by a forger

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.