Browse 1568 quotes about Authenticity.
“There are, literally, thousands
of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and fear-driven as spending your time speaking to people who don’t understand you. Find your tribe. Let yourself be seen. You are already someone’s hero.”
“When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You’ll see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You’ll realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.”
“But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that “local” and “authentic” food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore a problem, not something we can ever depend on as some kind of naturally occurring category. Tradition is crafted, just as much as modernity is manufactured.”
Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“If you only do the work when someone is watching, you aren't a professional; you're just an actor playing a part.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“So, character is how you do things, as well as what you do, and a person of character understands that how they get things done matters as much as what they get done. Character is about integrity over time, trustworthiness over time, authenticity over time, generosity over time.
Sometimes you’ll hear people talk a lot about values in conjunction with the word character, and I always say to people that values are what guide your behavior when no one is looking and you don’t think anyone will ever find out. The way you behave when you think you can get away with it is who you really are.”
“Having identity means that you know who you are and like who you are. You are able to be an authentic person in your disclosures to others.You have integrity.You believe in yourself and are responsible for your actions. You have your own opinions and you let others have theirs. You are confident of your abilities and respect those of others. To be able to make choices for yourself and to function as a separate individual is a demonstration of your autonomy. ...
Having identity is becoming your own individual and being able to express it. It means that you know yourself. It means that you are able to fit together into an integrated whole all the different images of yourself that have accrued to you throughout the years. Within that whole, however, there must be room for future images. Our quest for identity involves both BEING and BECOMING, for we are constantly changing. The man who never changes is not the man who has found his ultimate identity - it is rather a man who is afraid to seek his identity and has instead attached himself to a static role like a barnacle to a rock.”
Source: Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples
“There was a basic logical paradox that I called the 'fraudulence paradox' that I had discovered more or less on my own while taking a mathematical logic course in school...The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside - you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.”
Source: Oblivion
“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!”
“We’re driven to seek approval from the world, forgetting we can find comfort in our own quiet center.”
“Wholeness is in me and I am that I am in wholeness.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“Without question, the greatest lesson I learned during my time in school was that speaking my truth contributed more to my sense of inner peace than all the wealth and fame in the world.”
Source: Unbounded
“You do not have to shout to be heard by history.”
“The price of popularity is often the death of authenticity.”
“It is a writer's duty to speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”
“Great opinions will always matter, but at the end you should always follow the road that is written inside your heart”
“Great opinions will always matter, but at the end you should always follow the roadmap that is written inside your heart”
“How we enter and honor our relationships, treat others and ourselves, give and receive—these are all measures of life lived with integrity.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“That's not who I am, and you aren't paying me enough to be an actor.”
“Integrity is defined as “being honest and principled.” Integrity is a compass directing and guiding individual, team, and company actions.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“Leadership integrity means owning up to the successes, shortcomings, and failures of organizations.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“Integrity grows through frequent investments that affirm the goodness of ideas and people.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“Integrity increases when we act authentically, committing the goodness of our character to the noble intentions of those near and far.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“For leadership to have meaning, it must have integrity.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“For integrity to have meaning and utility in the organization, leadership must exist.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“Honesty, integrity, and reliability are among the factors that produce results in organizations.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“If, as individuals, we see no relationship between personal integrity and organizational integrity, then our abilities and fortunes to change and to lead organizations will lag our visions of creating better places to work.”
Source: Integrity by Design: Working and Living Authentically
“There are fewer things more poisonous than unresolved issues, resentment, and distrust within a leadership team.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“You might think that, as an executive, admitting mistakes shows weakness, but handled in the right way, it actually shows strength.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“It is about doing the right thing, which requires doing the right things the right way.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Faking it is never sustainable.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Running a successful business means making the right decisions at the right time based on reality.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“True leaders search for what they can give; others search for what they can take.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“As a founder or a CEO, you have a unique opportunity—and responsibility—to set the values for your organization.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“You need to be ready to lead by example and live up to those values in every way. Every. Single. Day.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Optimistic leaders look for solutions at all times, often when the stakes are highest, at the darkest moments, at the eleventh hour.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“A leader with integrity is unbreakable.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Humility drives open-mindedness and keeps you hungry for knowledge, facts, and data—the very elements of reality.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“As a CEO, you have to stand up to hard times. You cannot give up. You have to persevere. There are no short cuts.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Put them on display. Let everyone see your leadership skills and attributes in action.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“There is a world of difference between doing your best and pretending that you are doing the best.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Instead of faking it in the hope of buying time to make it, find the time now to differentiate the imagined from the real.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“If everyone is thinking the same way, nobody is thinking.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Even if you are running the operation, you cannot simply erase centuries of gender-focused behavior. That bias is real, and it is everywhere.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Controlling your destiny is the hallmark of reality-based leadership.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“A strong culture will keep you and your employees from faking it.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“A good plan implemented quickly is always better than the best plan implemented too late or not at all.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Leadership, in practice, is always about everyone else.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“Those who are resilient have a bias for action. They don’t wallow. They learn, and then move on, beyond failure.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“You lost, not because of what they did, but because of what you didn’t do.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“It is integrity, accountability, and emotional stamina that make a CEO durable.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success