Quotes About Genuineness

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. H.P. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature

If they knew Patsy at all they'd know she could not stand fakes. She was a good judge of people. She knew who was real and who wasn't. If they weren't real, they weren't getting a minute of Patsy's time.

She tried to smile warmly but wondered if she looked fakey, something Ariel sometimes accused her of. Ariel had said. It's like you're trying to be happy out of a book. Millie owned several books about trying to be happy.

A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

you can't be anybody but yourself. At the end of the day, you're stuck with that

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

While we are in that condition of darkness, we cannot have true fellowship with our brother either--for we are not real with him, and no one can have fellowship with an unreal person.

He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

Cuando un hombre habla como un libro impreso, es aburrido escucharle, pero a menudo es muy útil hablar de este modo.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.