Quotes about Genuineness
I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.
- Ricky Gervais
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.
- Marcus Aurelius
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be content to seem what you really are.
- Marcus Aurelius
I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.
- Toni Collette
I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
- John Mayer
We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
- Bill Hybels
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
- George Bernard Shaw
She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.
- George Eliot
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- Aldous Huxley
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.
- Francis de Sales