Quotes About Genuineness

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

A child's instincts are often the most honest.

But never try to be who you aren't; you don't have nearly enough practice to pull it off.

No te preocupes si no das a la gente lo que quieren. Dale quien eres, y que eso sea suficiente.

We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.

Steve said, You will always belong anywhere you show up as yourself and talk about yourself and your work in a real way.

think of it as the audacity of authenticity. Most of us have shame triggers around being perceived as self-indulgent or self-focused.

But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

To me, this quality of being who you are regardless of who you are with seems to be the very essence of authenticity—the result of being natural, sincere, spontaneous, open and genuine.

but in our social media world, it's increasingly difficult to determine what's a real attempt to connect and what's performance. The only thing I do know is that it's not vulnerability.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

it is better to live naked in truth than clothed in fantasy.

Be who you is, 'cause if you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

Do the truth quietly without display.

The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.