Quotes about Authenticity
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
— Aldous Huxley
You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
— Brene Brown
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
— Joyce Meyer
My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
— Josh McDowell
As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.
— Amanda Gorman
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
— Ava DuVernay
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
— Ava DuVernay
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
— Lady Gaga
The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.
— Rene Gutteridge
Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.
— Richard Baxter