Quotes About Genuineness

Truth is the complete unconcealment of reality

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Many try to be "on" as leaders & happy to be "off stage" but truly those that live their lives as leaders do not have to try to be the one & being worth a hollow follow on social media... it is not the same as being worth a soul commitment in a no shadows real life…

He found it virtually impossible to pretend to the niceties that served as social lubricant for the masses. He did not like all the runaround and flowery difficulty that accompanied even the simplest transactions. Why couldn't everyone just say what they meant? Why did they need to couch everything so cautiously? The truth should always be enough, regardless of its delivery.

If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

And if there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.

Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.

These are not pretty things, but they are true things.

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.

And if there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

Strategic and coy are for jackasses.

Ruth is Truth

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. There come great eruptions and revolts, great dark ravages, and above all, a joylessness. A great, bleak joylessness. Everything that is natural brings joy.

I don't go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people's approval.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

Reality is what it is

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

I'm not going to tell you how I think you should live your life, or what I think you should do," said Mary. "Now's not the time. But I will say this: Don't try to paper over things that matter, Laura. The cracks will appear. Maybe not immediately, but they will.

Great brands, however, are authentic. They have endured because people have learned they are credible and have come to trust those brands to be what they say they are; great brands have integrity. What they say is integrated—integrated and integrity are related expressions—with what they do. No one responds to our efforts to be other than who we are. They respond to the good but bad, excellent but flawed person across the table from them.

It is very hard to be a hypocrite if you aren't trained for it.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are