Quotes About Genuineness

Be, rather than seem

To be rather than to seem.

In here and out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore.

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falcified.

But reality soon asserted itself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

In a world where everything could be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, it was too incredible to think that this could not.

NEVER LIE TO SOMEONE WHO IS LIKELY TO SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU.

If something is not right or real, don't lose your self.

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

There's no beauty in the false, the artificial and the lie.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

I don't like it when the inside parts of you don't match up with what the brain part of you thinks. If there were a medicine to make this go away I would take it, even if it was cherry flavor, which tastes terrible and is not my favorite.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.