Quotes about Authenticity
Help me understand that sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. Truth will never fail to return enormous dividends.
— Beth Moore
Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves.
— Beth Moore
Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.
— Beth Moore
When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.
— Erwin McManus
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
— Paulo Coelho
The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have to take it seriously. You have to try and play it as faithfully as possible. That way it helps the comedy. Rather than just playing it in a silly way.
— Bill Bailey
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
— Steven Pressfield
It's okay to be an introvert, to seek out the quiet corners at a cocktail party, to care about quality, to have your mood be affected by your surroundings.
— Steven Pressfield
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it's our job to
— Steven Pressfield
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it's our job to become a painter. If
— Steven Pressfield
On realising that he is not a born warrior, as the rest of his troop are): A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous bag-gage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact.
— Steven Pressfield