Authenticity Quotes

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

~ Andrew Pettegree

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

~ Henna Inam

True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

~ Will Jelbert

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

~ Milan Kundera

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be hard enough in this odd world we have been born into. We have to bear witness to moral principles which the world owned yesterday and has begun to turn its back on today. We have to disapprove of some of the things our neighbors do, without being stuffy about it; we have to be charitable towards our neighbors and make great allowances for them, without falling into the mistake of condoning their low standards and so encouraging them to sin. Two of the most difficult and delicate tasks a man can undertake; and it happens, nowadays, not only to priests, to whom it comes as part of their professional duty, but to ordinary lay people...So we must know what are the unalterable principles we hold, and why we hold them; we must see straight in a world that is full of moral fog.

~ Ronald Knox

Never get your sense of worth from outside yourself. Never fall into the trap of thinking that who you are is not enough and that you need other people’s approval, love and validation in order to feel that you’re of value. Never allow external things, places, people and circumstances to determine or tell you how much you’re worth. It’s called self-worth, not others’ worth.

~ Luminita D. Saviuc

Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child.

~ Rachel M. Walls

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

~ Marianne Williamson

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make our everyday choices, we continuously calculate not just which choices best match who we are and what we want but also how those choices will be interpreted by others. We look for cues in our social environment to figure out what others think of this or that, which can require being sensitive to the most localized and up-to-date details of what a particular choice means.

~ Sheena Iyengar

Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude. It can also be a time when feeling grateful can be an acrobatic feat that you're just not up for. There's no rules that need to be followed here. Authentic living is your only option, so it's ok to turn off the tv when another ad screams for you to be a certain way just because the calendar says so. Power of suggestion can be great medicine - but don't judge yourself or a loved one who is having trouble learning the words to this song. It's a tough season from some people. Huddle and cuddle with those you trust and love. That's real medicine and it's a good place to be during the holidays. xoxo

~ Deborah Pardes

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

~ Plato

What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life alone

~ Lang Leav

Becoming unshakeable through this storm.

~ Nikki Rowe

I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you’re trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doings. In our frenzied doing, we are often not conscious of our state of being. Yet our deepest impact comes from our state of being because it is at the root of our intentions, our choices, and our behavior.

~ Henna Inam

Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to what’s happening now, and creating from it is a critical leadership skill.

~ Henna Inam

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

~ Henna Inam

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

~ Bill Bryson

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

~ Madam Secretary

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

~ E.m. Forster

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

~ Jason Gray

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

~ David Halberstam

Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected — to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom — we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.

~ Michael Meade

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

~ Dan Pearce

Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

~ Philip Zaleski

We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?

~ Sherry Turkle

In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. (Like a frozen image)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.

~ Tonya Sheridan