Authenticity Quotes

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it - a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

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

The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn’t let “that’s just not me!” stand in the way.

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.