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Quotes About Genuineness

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.
~ Redman
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
~ Harry S. Truman
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
~ Robert Orben
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
~ Pablo Picasso
You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.
~ Josh Hutcherson
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.
~ Billy Collins
I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)
~ Lisi Harrison, The Clique
It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
~ Lois Greiman, Unplugged
If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.
~ Leah Marie Brown, Faking It
What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.
~ Bob Newhart
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
~ George Henry Lewes
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
~ Fanny Brice
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
~ Meryl Streep
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
~ Deena Metzger
You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.
~ Danielle LaPorte
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
~ Publilius Syrus
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
~ Howard Schultz
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
~ Gabrielle Reece