Quotes About Genuineness

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do.

Everything is becoming so shappy these days. So lacking in worth. I just don't feel like joing the trend. - Fenton Wood-Lacy

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

We should rather say that he is a friend who is, as well as seems, good; and that he who seems only, and is not good, only seems to be and is not a friend; and of an enemy the same may be said.

Real problems sooner or later are resolved; on the contrary, pseudoproblems are not.

Het lijkt me overbodig hieraan toe te voegen dat geen enkel feit verzonnen is.