Authenticity Quotes

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

action be yourself

You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.  You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.

inner peace be yourself

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

be yourself inner peace

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

individuality be yourself inner peace

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

be yourself

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

hypocrisy

You can't change the music of your soul.

change the self individuality be yourself

What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: to be himself.

be yourself duty

The best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive.  At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"

be yourself

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

gentleman be yourself

One should stick by one's own soul, and by nothing else.  In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death.  And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

be yourself

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.  But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

vision be yourself

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

be yourself

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

be yourself

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.  This need we may call self-actualization.

be yourself inner peace

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

individuality originality

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?  How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life?

journeys individuality

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is ever be put together a second time.

be yourself uniqueness individuality

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

be yourself pretense

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

integrity be yourself

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

be yourself the self

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

be yourself individuality

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

becoming potential