Quotes About Genuineness

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.

Learn to express, not impress.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Maybe if we all stopped getting so caught up in taking sixty selfies before we post one or reshooting the same video twenty times till it looks flawless, we'd be better off. Life isn't perfect. Why should we pretend that it is online?

When we operate from the central concern of being seen a certain way, we can't develop healthy relationships in the messy soil of reality-- the only place they'll grow. Presenting a perfect, fake life to others generates fear in our own hearts and intimidation in everyone else's, and creates nice, fake relationships-- with our friends, with our family members, even with our own children.

But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.

Gentle, inspired, authentic, stories will outsell' hard sell' any day.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner, fearless self-explorer

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner

How can I be sure who's real and who isn't?

Why study authenticity if not to seek it? Try to ring some last truth from that word before it's so leeched of meaning that becomes a word casing, a shell without a bullet. A term that can be used only inside quotation marks.

Knowing all of this makes us one step closer to being real, but not completely. When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know it's happened?

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

your hips are utterly incapable of falsehood.

For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged somewhere. With my fellow Naturals, I never had to pretend to be someone I wasn't. I couldn't have, even if I'd wanted to.

Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist.

Never bullshit a bullshitter.