1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

Being authentic will get you where you need and want to go, and it will be your path to building the most meaningful and enriching connections with others.

To make meaningful connections in an authentic way, you have to project the best parts of your true self. In other words, before you expect others to like you, you have to like you--that is the law of self-image.

Perception is reality, and self-image is self-perception.

Self-image is the basis for how you experience--and are experienced by--the outside world.

Unity, though concerned with the larger group, is birthed by individuals when we’re at our compassion-filled, authentic best.

When we can authentically be truly who we are, and be honest with ourselves and our feelings - not making decisions out of past hurts and future fears - then we are truly free.

In my own market research for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, I have found that the best ways to communicate authenticity I to trigger personalization. Do audience members see themselves in the slogan… and therefore in the product? Unfortunately, achieving personalization is by no means easy.

Authenticity is the sine qua non of everything that matters. When you encounter someone unguarded, without artifice or pretense--Mon Dieu!--you know it. I compare it to being at the top of the mountain: the air is clearer, there's nothing to muddy the senses. It's bracingly refreshing.

When you haven't figured out who you are and what you offer the world, it's awfully easy to get hoodwinked into thinking you're not as good as everyone else. It's even easier to start taking on the arts and pretensions of someone you're not. Don't bother. There's nothing fabulous about a generic. We always pay more for the original.