Authenticity Quotes

• Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Practice

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

  Peter Guber

  Positivity, Views, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2014

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• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Real

  "Are You the One for Me? Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong". Book by Barbara De Angelis, 1992.

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• Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Vulnerable

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• Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

  Simon Sinek

  Imperfection, Leader, Quality

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• Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else

  Michael Jordan

  Want, Being True, Who You Are

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

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.60, Penguin

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• be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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• Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Self, World

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Common, Spirituality

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• Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

  Lance Secretan

  Love, Leadership, Inspiration

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• If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Real, Grief

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• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Meredith Monk

  Honesty, Voice, Never Quit

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We are constantly invited to be who we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Who We Are, Invited

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• It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Persons

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• I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

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• Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Real, Hard Times

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• Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Liars, Thinking

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• Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Leader, Commodity

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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  W. H. Auden

  Confusion, Confusing, Funny Basketball

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