Quotes about Authenticity

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency. Some of the ways a leader can betray trust include: breaking promises, gossiping, withholding information, and being two-faced. These actions destroy the environment of trust necessary for the growth of potential leaders. And when a leader breaks trust, he must work twice as hard to regain it.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

He who hath many friends hath none.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.