Quotes About Genuineness

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

I cannot be what I am not.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Authenticity is hard to fake

Do not hide behind any mask

Be true to yourself.

The best way to be you is to be yourself.

Be the person you would want to be friends with.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

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

I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

Thus, Epictetus advises us to form "a certain character and pattern" for ourselves when we are alone. Then, when we associate with other people, we should remain true to who we are.

His subject thou art whom thou crownest in thy heart, and not whom thou flatterest with thy lips.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

Appearance too often takes the place of reality -- the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, "I know not seem!"

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind our home she offered the beauty of herself without pretension.

Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Showing emotion was bad. Unless it was fake, then it was okay.

The spirit of Missions is the spirit of our Master: the very genius of His religion. A diffusive philanthropy is Christianity itself. It requires perpetual propagation to attest its genuineness.