Quotes About Genuineness

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.

From C. R. Rogers's (1961) perspective, the problems of inauthenticity arise not because a person hides his real emotional reactions from others (as may sometimes be appropriate) but because he hides them from himself.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

No one will ever be moved to Spirit-led action without faith. One's faith is not genuine unless it moves him or her to action. Faith and works are necessary companions. The faith produces the works, while the works demonstrate the genuineness of the faith.

Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted.

The heck with it. What you see is what you get. Like it or lump it. It matters not to me.

Being famous is not everything. Being yourself is more than just anything.

There is no hypocrisy in truthfulness.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Supposedly, the truth was always the best option.

Sometimes when talking to somebody she was suddenly revolted by herself, aware of how eagerly she was leaning forward, chin jutting, mimicking the other person's gestures, moving with them, nodding and smiling, gently nudging their conversation along with a constant stream of appreciative chuckles, soothing 'hmmms' and surprised exclamations. 'Really!' 'Did he?' 'You're kidding!' Love me, love me!

When you see a real nigga you gotta tip yo hat.. and since Im a real nigga, I do just that.

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.