Authenticity Quotes

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

~ David Carr

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...

~ Howard Schultz

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

~ Alison Bechdel

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shotHoes I ain't caughtOr shit I ain't bought.

~ Ice-T

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

~ Ali Smith

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

~ Karen Horney

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

~ Roland Merullo

There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.

~ Julieanne O'connor

Authenticity is a powerful force. Don't ruin it with an illusion.

~ K. Melissa Kennedy

Actions Matter: Do As I Do. Not As I Say.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

People usually reveal only those aspects of life that enhance their personality & image, but in my case I love amusing people by being myself!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You can ask others for directions about your life's path...But remember, then you're on someone else's journey and may get lost. Search for your path within.

~ Nanette Mathews

There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are.

~ Cindy Timmers

How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.

~ Tom Robbins

The word 'inauthentic' is used by Heidegger to describe the ostrich-like attitude of the man who seeks to escape from his inescapable self-responsibility by becoming an anonymous member of a crowd. This is the normal attitude of nearly everybody. To be 'authentic' a man must be constantly and deliberately aware of his total responsibility for what he is. For example, a judge may disclaim personal responsibility for sentencing people to punishment. He will say that as a judge it is his duty to punish. In other words it is as an anonymous representative of the Judiciary that he punishes, and it is the Judiciary that must take the responsibility. This man is inauthentic. If he wishes to be authentic he must think to himself, whenever he sits on the Bench or draws his salary, 'Why do I punish? Because, as a judge, it is my duty to punish. Why am I a judge? Is it perhaps my duty to be a judge? No. I am a judge because I myself choose to be a judge. I choose to be one who punishes in the name of the Law. Can I, if I really wish, choose not to be a judge? Yes, I am absolutely free at any moment to stop being a judge, if I so choose. If this is so, when a guilty man comes up before me for sentence, do I have any alternative but to punish him? Yes, I can get up, walk out of the courtroom, and resign my job. Then if, instead, I punish him, am I responsible? I am totally responsible.

~ Nanavira Thera

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

~ Rick Warren

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

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.

~ Pearl Zhu

SHINING is how you become BRIGHTER!

~ Trilby D. Johnson

Authenticity soothes the soul.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Branding is a verb, ya heard? Now get out there and BE your brand.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Customers don't just want another cool product or service, they want to have an experience worth sharing

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

~ Kevin Focke

Be real. Be you and don't you dare apologize for who you are ever again.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. in fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all arrangements....I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.'Bilbo

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful!

~ Leo Tolstoy

Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.

~ Maria Flynn

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

~ Philip Zaleski

Although it might seem as though anonymity, invisibility, and other such distancing factors grant us the freedom to engage in more authentic forms of self-expression than we're usually permitted, [John] Suler warns against the temptation to regard disinhibition as revealing of an underlying 'rue self. He suggests instead that the inhibited self and disinhibited self are simply different *sides* of the *same* person. So Suler challenges the intuitive notion that whatever inhibits us thereby diminishes the authenticity of our self-expression.

~ Mimi Marinucci

Plasticity inhibits authenticity, and fosters in its place a kind of fairytale, insubstantial, unstable environment. All under the cover of freedom of choice. but there is no freedom larger than simply being who you must be. There is no more formidable Self than the one that has adjusted to nonnegotiable fixed points or unconditional obstacles to its aspiration. There is no more compelling truth than accepting with genuine grace what one cannot change.And so there is no larger testimony to freedom than someone who has taken such a course of life over a long haul; who ultimately and transparently bears the marks and scars of where they have been in real time. Such person wear line on their faces, lines that resolutely defy the airbrush. Such persons need not continuously broadcast their inner narratives; nor need they present the same visage to every acquaintance. But their faces still speak volumes to anyone with eyes to see. Their faces bear the marks of their irrevocable investments in their inalienable humanity.

~ Mariam Thalos

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There was no one for you to impress and no one for you to offend. You were right there and I was afraid of how real you were, which made me question my own level of authenticity. I'd take off my clothes on the beach or spill my guts to a girl I'd never met on the bus, thinking I was uncensored and open, but I wasn't always real if I wanted someone to like me. I gravitated to those who withheld or told me who they thought I was.

~ Mary-Louise Parker

My friendships have stopped being so exclusive and the guidelines have simplified.Does knowing me help someone I know become a better person?Am I becoming a better person knowing someone?Here’s how I know a relationship is working. When I’m with that person, I am happy. I look forward to seeing that person. I’m not afraid that that person will hurt me intentionally. I’m not hesitant to speak up if I do feel hurt. Knowing that person, challenges me to grow. Being around that person gives me comfort when I feel sad. That person is someone I want to celebrate with when things are great.I’ve let go of expecting people to behave a certain way or to treat me a certain way. However, I feel I’m more idealistic about my relationships than I’ve ever been. I want the most difficult thing you can ask a person and that is for them to be themselves, the good and the bad. I want authenticity where many find it hard to be authentic with themselves. It’s from our authentic selves where true connections are made.It’s from those true connections where I finally feel understood.

~ Corin

Don’t walk through life stifling your authenticity, suppressing your uniqueness, hiding your truth out of fear of what others may think, Being someone other than you are only hampers your wellbeing and also wastes a whole lot of your energy.

~ Renee Cefalu

Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.

~ Garry Fitchett

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

~ Chris Matthews